Giving Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction…

— Charles Caleb Colton