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
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 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 Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 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 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 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
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
