Charles Shell > Charles's Quotes

“My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.”
― Robert Silverberg

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.

[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton