Life Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

— 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

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that…

— 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 worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander…

— 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

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large…

— Charles Caleb Colton