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
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
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that… — 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
