Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Currency Copy Share Image
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration 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
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Aggression Copy Share Image
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but… — 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
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
“He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not. — Charles Caleb Colton Attention Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Agnosticism Copy Share Image
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton Ethics Copy Share Image
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes… — Charles Caleb Colton Clock Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — 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 Bears Copy Share Image
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to… — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. — Charles Caleb Colton Loss Copy Share Image
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it… — Charles Caleb Colton Acceptance Copy Share Image
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. — Charles Caleb Colton Apostles Copy Share Image
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,… — Charles Caleb Colton Danger Copy Share Image
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Blessing Copy Share Image
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
