83 Quotes by Augustus William Hare

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

A lawyer’s brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.