Augustus Hare Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.”

“Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.”

“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”

“Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

“There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 world for his coming.”

“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.”