A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.… — 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
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will… — 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
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
