H.W. Charles Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

We cannot begin with complete doubt.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

Methods are the masters of masters.

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness.

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt