It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversities Copy Share Image
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton Brain Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an… — Charles Caleb Colton Funny Copy Share Image
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. — 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
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows… — Charles Caleb Colton Christian Copy Share Image
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Abyss 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 Approach Copy Share Image
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be… — Charles Caleb Colton Excellence Copy Share Image
“If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any… — CHARLES CALEB COLTON Hypocrites Copy Share Image
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual… — Charles Caleb Colton Animal Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Envy Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Benefactors Copy Share Image
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration 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
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new… — Charles Caleb Colton Change Copy Share Image
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Brain Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will… — 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. — 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 better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Learning Copy Share Image
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. — 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
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Environment Copy Share Image
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration Copy Share Image
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice Copy Share Image
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. — Charles Caleb Colton Exercise Copy Share Image
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Civil war Copy Share Image
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
