H.W. Charles Quotes

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.