Julius Charles Hare

“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.”

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

“Truth is not a single, but a double, mansion.”

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”

“Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parades.”

“Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.”

“The words of the wise are like nails, driven home by the master of the assembly.”

“Every poet is a master of condensation.”

“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it.”

“The soil of the human mind is not virgin.”

“For in all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”

“A man's house should be on the hill-top of life, from whence he can see the world.”

“A trimmer is one who admires the masterly manner in which truth and falsehood are exalted and debased on the same string.”

“Humility is the root of all the other virtues.”

“The great lesson of history is that it has no lesson.”