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 Copy Share Image
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. — 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
