Julius Hare

“Nothing is further from Earth than Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.”

“The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.”

“Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.”

“A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.”

“The only way of setting the Will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.”

“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.”

“A Faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none. It is only Doubt taking a nap in an elbow chair. The husband, whose scepticism is prurient enough to contemplate the possibility of his wife's proving false, richly deserves that she should do so.”

“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.”

“If then I am addressing one of that numerous class, who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with the book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished: do not come to look for it in a stonequarry. But if you are building up your opinions for yourself, and only want to be provided with materials, you may meet with many things in these pages to suit you.”