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?
Augustus HareA Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
Augustus HareFriendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
Augustus HareWhat a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Augustus Hare