Quotes

“Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.” Augustus Hare

“Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.” Augustus Hare

“What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.” Augustus Hare

“Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.” Augustus Hare

“A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.” Augustus Hare

“Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.” Augustus Hare

“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.” Augustus Hare

“It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.” Augustus Hare

“Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.” Augustus Hare

“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.” Augustus Hare

“There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.” Augustus Hare

“To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.” Augustus Hare

“A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.” Augustus Hare

“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.” 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 conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.” Augustus Hare

“Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.” Augustus Hare

“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” Alexander Hamilton

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton

“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” Alexander Hamilton

“It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.” Alexander Hamilton

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” Alexander Hamilton

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” Alexander Hamilton

“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.” Alexander Hamilton

“A promise must never be broken.” Alexander Hamilton

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.” Alexander Hamilton

“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” Alexander Hamilton

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.” Alexander Hamilton

“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.” Alexander Hamilton

“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton

“Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton