H.W. Charles Quotes
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.