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
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — 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 Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton 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 Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — 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
