A. W. Hare Quotes
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
