Julius Charles Hare
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.Collection: Intelligence
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.Collection: Adversity
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!Collection: Children
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.Collection: Psychology
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.Collection: Wisdom
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.Collection: Next
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.Collection: People
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.Collection: Mean
The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Greatness
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.Collection: Philosophy
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Brave
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.Collection: Eye
The virtue of Christianity is obedience.Collection: Christianity