Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
good man nor trusted unlimited wise
No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.
cuts double egotism good himself living others permit pleasure prevents suicidal truest wealth
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t
good man trusted unlimited wise
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
prayer excuse good-work
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
book healing good-friend
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
duplicity forward full integrity simple straight tricks
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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
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
safest surest ways
The old ways are the safest and surest ways
above adverse depressing fights-and-fighting influences rising
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
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