Charles Reade's Quotes

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.