Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Liberty will not descend to a people.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Our income are like our shoes.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done.. view

By: Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more... view

By: Charles Caleb Colton