I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
Augustus William HareThere are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
Augustus William HareChristianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
Augustus William Hare