30 Quotes by Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

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

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

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

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

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