Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
defeat emulation envy exalt herself looks lower spies
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
city
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city
camps improve large pay price refinement strengthen talents thus
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
duplicity forward full integrity simple straight tricks
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
conceal difficult easy hide hole less quite shall thousand wealth
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
asunder equity god hath law man
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder
cuts double egotism good himself living others permit pleasure prevents suicidal truest wealth
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t
safest surest ways
The old ways are the safest and surest ways
apt catch company contagious disease far health others preferable vices
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
great minds ready
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
above adverse depressing fights-and-fighting influences rising
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them
english-writer great honest people publish sensible
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.