Quotes by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

“Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.”

“Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?”

“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.”

“Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”

“Every wise man lives in an observatory.”