Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer and raconteur. Read full biography of Augustus Hare →
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the... →
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... →
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and... →
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... →
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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 John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer and raconteur.