Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
Augustus William HareThere are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
Augustus William HareMany men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
Augustus William HareIt 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. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus William Hare