The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. – Augustus Hare
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 virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience. – Augustus Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. – Augustus Hare
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud