Augustus William Hare Quotes
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True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.
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I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
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A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
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People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.