H.W. Charles Quotes

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

This is a racist country.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

I would rather be respected than elected.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Friendship? Yes Please.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.