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 world for his coming. ”

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ”

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. ”

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. ”

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. ”

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. ”

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

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? ”

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. ”

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