When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
Augustus William HareWe look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
Augustus William HareWhen we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
Augustus William HareIt is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.
Augustus William HareMost painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Augustus William HareBooks, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare