Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton Conflict Copy Share Image
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquisition Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Alone Copy Share Image
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Orang yang merasa dirinya manusia paling bahagia, memang ia manusia yang paling bahagia.” — Charles Caleb Colton Yang Copy Share Image
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton Brain Copy Share Image
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged… — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Ancestry Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Deceiver Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton American revolution Copy Share Image
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search… — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by… — Charles Caleb Colton Battle Copy Share Image
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friend Copy Share Image
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Chains Copy Share Image
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton Climate Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Class Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Haste Copy Share Image
