Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — 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
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