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We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. - Charles Caleb Quotes

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed - Charles Caleb Quotes

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible - Charles Caleb Quotes

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave - Charles Caleb Quotes

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence - Charles Caleb Quotes

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted - Charles Caleb Quotes

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only - Charles Caleb Quotes

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. - Charles Caleb Quotes

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. - Charles Caleb Quotes

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. - Charles Caleb Quotes

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun - Charles Caleb Quotes

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them - Charles Caleb Quotes

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t - Charles Caleb Quotes

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say - Charles Caleb Quotes

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change - Charles Caleb Quotes

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish - Charles Caleb Quotes

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. - Charles Caleb Quotes

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health - Charles Caleb Quotes

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books - Charles Caleb Quotes

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books

There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so - Charles Caleb Quotes

There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Quotes

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies - Charles Caleb Quotes

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies

Mind

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 - Charles Caleb Quotes

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture - Charles Caleb Quotes

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture

No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. - Charles Caleb Quotes

No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. - Charles Caleb Quotes

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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 - Charles Caleb Quotes

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

Wine

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

English Writer Truth

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. - Charles Caleb Quotes

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design - Charles Caleb Quotes

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils - Charles Caleb Quotes

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. - Charles Caleb Quotes

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

English Writer Prudence

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

English Writer Grace

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

English Writer Extravagance

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. - Charles Caleb Quotes

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay - Charles Caleb Quotes

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never - Charles Caleb Quotes

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve - Charles Caleb Quotes

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder - Charles Caleb Quotes

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves - Charles Caleb Quotes

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

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