Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — 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
