Augustus Hare

“Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

“Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.”