Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
age both lay shall stock
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
age church body
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.
age waste excess
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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.
brains display heads knowledge learned pedantry room showy takes
Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
hatred pity seldom
Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
danger fog mystery sun
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed