Charles Caleb Men Quotations

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

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.

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

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