The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Augustus Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. — Augustus Hare
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. — Augustus Hare
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; — Augustus Hare
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set — Augustus Hare
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it — Augustus Hare
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. — Augustus Hare