We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that… — 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
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.… — 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
