To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but… — 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
