Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. — Charles Caleb Colton 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 Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations… — 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 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
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — 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 Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
