Charles Simmons Quotes - Page 2

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.