Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. — 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
