Inspirational Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

— Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

— Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

— 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

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that…

— 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

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The smiling daughter of the storm.

— Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A hug is worth a thousand words.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

— Charles Caleb Colton