H.W. Charles Quotes

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

The law of attraction or the law of love... they are one and the same.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Conservation must become before recreation.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.