The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — 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
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — 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
