It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — 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
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their… — 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
