In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea.… — 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
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — 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
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — 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
