Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it… — 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 Copy Share Image
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross… — 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 Copy Share Image
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope… Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the… — 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
