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Elizabeth Charles Quotes

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

Elizabeth Charles
Courage, Art, Men

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

Elizabeth Charles
Children, Father, Ears

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

Elizabeth Charles
Religion, Devil, Deals
Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.226

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

Elizabeth Charles
Long, Way, Wealth
Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.53

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

Elizabeth Charles
Discovery, Innovation, Everyday
Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

Elizabeth Charles
Religious, Devil, Saint
Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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