H.W. Charles Quotes

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

How do we make people's lives better unless we find the truth of what works and what doesn't?

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

It is good to have friends at court.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

The true poet dreams being awake.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!