Augustus Hare Men Quotations

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

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

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

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 himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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

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.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.