Augustus Quotes
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.
England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.
You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.
I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.
That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.
Do wrong to thyself, do wrong to thyself, my soul, but thou wilt no longer have the opportunity of honoring thyself.
Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn, but true desire is something else entirely.
I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark
Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!