Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — 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
