Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
– Augustus Hare
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
– Augustus Hare
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.
– Augustus Hare
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
– Augustus Hare
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
– Augustus Hare
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
– Augustus Hare
The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
– Augustus Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
– Augustus Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
– Augustus Hare
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?