H.W. Charles Quotes

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

If you let them kill you, they will

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.