Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
funny wise humor
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
friends true-friend book
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
determination past age
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
hate anger racism
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
book healing good-friend
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
flattery form
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
giving literature doe
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
flattery imitation
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.