44 Quotes by Augustus Hare

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.