The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Augustus Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

- Augustus Hare

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

- Augustus Hare

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in h…

- Augustus Hare

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

- Augustus Hare

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

- Augustus Hare

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

- Augustus Hare

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

- Augustus Hare

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a…

- Augustus Hare