Augustus
Augustus
Augustuswas the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionRoyalty
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
christian gentleman christianity
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
eye moon deny
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
spiritual angel men
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.
beautiful country wish
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
men evil neighbor
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
witty truth all-things
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
thinking voice may
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.
mother tired boys
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
people example excellent
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
heaven earth
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
paganism good-christian christianity
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
faith character shining
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.