Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. Augustus Hare Read Quote
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. Augustus Hare Read Quote
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. Augustus Hare Read Quote
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. Augustus Hare Read Quote
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Augustus Hare Read Quote
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. Augustus Hare Read Quote
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. Augustus Hare Read Quote
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. Augustus Hare Read Quote
