The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope… Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would… — 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
