Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — 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
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — 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
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — 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
