Quotes from Charles Wagner

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

When I loved you and you loved me, You were the sky, the sea, the tree; Now the skies are skies, and seas are seas, And trees are brown and they are trees.

They all forget that those who make the least noise do the most work. An engine that expends all its steam in whistling, has nothing left with which to turn wheels. Then let us cultivate silence. All that we can save in noise we gain in power.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.