Happiness Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

— 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

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart…

— Charles Caleb Colton

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she…

— Charles Caleb Colton