Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Beautiful 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Alarms 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Courage 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Books 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Appreciation Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Mean 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 Approved 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 Bottom 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Altars 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… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge Copy Share Image
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin… — Charles Caleb Colton Activity Copy Share Image
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Common Copy Share Image
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Human nature Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Doubt Copy Share Image
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the… — Charles Caleb Colton Contradicting Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Associates 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 Efficient Copy Share Image
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton Approach Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Affliction Copy Share Image
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder,… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
