Julius Charles Hare Quotes
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.
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.
Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
