put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton 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 Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. — 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
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. — 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
