True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

- Augustus William Hare

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

- Augustus William Hare

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.

- Augustus William Hare

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will …

- Augustus William Hare

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

- Augustus William Hare

Seeking is not always the way to find.

- Augustus William Hare

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

- Augustus William Hare

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

- Augustus William Hare

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

- Augustus William Hare