44 Quotes by Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.