Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus HareNever put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Augustus HareThe question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
Augustus Hare