Charles Paul Simmons was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, Powdered Eggs, was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award for a notable first novel.
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Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. — If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
—Charles Simmons
Public opinion, or public sentiment, is able to sustain, or to pull down any law of the commonwealth.
—Charles Simmons
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
—Charles Simmons
Deny first-truths, and reasoning is void. If an opponent denies them, we can only add: “Be not as the horse and the mule, who have no understanding.”
—Charles Simmons
The thoughtless tattling tongue often murders the peace, and blights the good name of others, as surely and wickedly as if inflamed by malice.
—Charles Simmons
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