Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — 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
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — 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
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — 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
