H.W. Charles Quotes

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

The world meets nobody half way.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.