Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
conceal difficult easy hide hole less quite shall thousand wealth
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
medicine easy harm
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
benefits tasks easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
book easy easy-to-get
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
defeat emulation envy exalt herself looks lower spies
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
apt catch company contagious disease far health others preferable vices
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
camps improve large pay price refinement strengthen talents thus
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
life men patches shreds small throw
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
drudgery genius man mill school sentence true
To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed