That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — 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
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — 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
