Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? – Augustus Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. – Augustus Hare
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. – Augustus Hare
The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience. – Augustus Hare
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. – Arthur Schopenhauer