Littles Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can…

— 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

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope… Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will…

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous…

— Charles Caleb Colton