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
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
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. — Charles Caleb Colton Business 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
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Environment 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
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day,… — Charles Caleb Colton Equality Copy Share Image
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can… — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of… — Charles Caleb Colton Amiable Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Alchemist Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
