From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank.… — 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
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — 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
