Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. William Carleton More Quotes by William Carleton More Quotes From William Carleton Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so. William Carleton kites fire advice Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim. William Carleton certain feelings philosophy