put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational 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
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
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Antiquity Copy Share Image
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works… — Charles Caleb Colton Consent Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Best friend Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Audience Copy Share Image
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Antithesis Copy Share Image
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Authority Copy Share Image
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. — Charles Caleb Colton Advice Copy Share Image
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. — Charles Caleb Colton Investing Copy Share Image
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton Family Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. — Charles Caleb Colton Bashful Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton Crime Copy Share Image
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. — Charles Caleb Colton Champagne Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection. — Charles Caleb Colton Affection Copy Share Image
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. — Charles Caleb Colton Cat Copy Share Image
