Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often… — Charles Caleb Colton Ashamed Copy Share Image
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Affliction Copy Share Image
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Praise Copy Share Image
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we… — Charles Caleb Colton Advice Copy Share Image
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are… — Charles Caleb Colton Champagne Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — 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 Accidents Copy Share Image
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of… — Charles Caleb Colton Desert Copy Share Image
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity 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
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Despot Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Courage Copy Share Image
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect… — Charles Caleb Colton Caution Copy Share Image
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the… — Charles Caleb Colton Credit Copy Share Image
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people… — Charles Caleb Colton Flow Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — 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
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Destination Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
