30 Quotes by Charles Caleb

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.

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

There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

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

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.

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill