Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I jerk off 'til I bust blood.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.