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
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Altars Copy Share Image
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Duplicity Copy Share Image
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Body 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
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how… — Charles Caleb Colton Coincidence Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Chance 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 Age 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 Attention Copy Share Image
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is… — Charles Caleb Colton Affirmation Copy Share Image
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. — Charles Caleb Colton Health Copy Share Image
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Brave Copy Share Image
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive. — Charles Caleb Colton Blind Copy Share Image
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
