Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — 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
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — 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 Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of… — Charles Caleb Colton 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 Copy Share Image
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
