Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
judging lawyer chosen
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
cutting lions teeth
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
habit reconcile
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
funeral littles pay
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.