Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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 nor trusted unlimited wise
No man is wise enough, nor 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.
good man trusted unlimited wise
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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
bitterest enemy field hearts meet rather
There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
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
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
against knowledge profoundly wise
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.