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Charles Simmons Quotes

«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.»
«Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Heart, Mind | Keywords: avenues, dreaminess, entrance, reveries
«Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Ridicule | Keywords: first and last, ridicule
«Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue»
«Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and usefulness»
«The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: God, Truth | Keywords: small number, weightier
«No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Right
«A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock»
«For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Fraud | Keywords: repentance
«Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Wisdom