Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
light moral materials
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
enjoy
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
heart punishment world
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
understanding mind half
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.
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
hug thousand
A hug is worth a thousand words.
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
judging lawyer chosen
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.