Quotes from Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

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

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

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.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

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

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

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

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

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

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

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

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Johnson well says, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.