Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. — Charles Caleb Colton Condensation Copy Share Image
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. — Charles Caleb Colton Games Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Light Copy Share Image
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. — Charles Caleb Colton Argument Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friend Copy Share Image
“Orang yang merasa dirinya manusia paling bahagia, memang ia manusia yang paling bahagia.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Having Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Enjoyed Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by… — Charles Caleb Colton Battle Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Human nature Copy Share Image
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a… — Charles Caleb Colton Errors Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross… — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Bitter Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Being wise Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but… — Charles Caleb Colton All time Copy Share Image
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton Accounts 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 Addresses Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
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 Acquire Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Boast Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Balls Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Alas Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. — Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry Copy Share Image
