Augustus Quotes

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.