H.W. Charles Quotes

I'm for prayer in schools.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.