Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
