Charles Caleb Others Quotations

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

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.

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