Julius Charles Hare Quotes
How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring,
you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
To talk without effort is, after all the great charm of talking.
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.
The virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.