JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Smiles are the language of love.

In oratory the will must predominate.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

No one but a fool is always right.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

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.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little 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.

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.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.