The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted… — 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
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex… — 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
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad… — 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
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. — 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
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
