It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. — Charles Caleb Colton Experience Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton Energy 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
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Deceiver Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power — Charles Caleb Colton Good enough Copy Share Image
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. — Charles Caleb Colton Draws Copy Share Image
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive. — Charles Caleb Colton Blind Copy Share Image
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that… — Charles Caleb Colton Hot Copy Share Image
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for… — Charles Caleb Colton Alexander Copy Share Image
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Currency Copy Share Image
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration 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 Cabinets Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Accused Copy Share Image
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not… — Charles Caleb Colton Cease Copy Share Image
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of… — Charles Caleb Colton Association Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Certain 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 Christian Copy Share Image
As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with… — Charles Caleb Colton Apathy Copy Share Image
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too… — Charles Caleb Colton Anticipate Copy Share Image
We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their… — Charles Caleb Colton All time Copy Share Image
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Believe 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
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Admire Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law… — Charles Caleb Colton Borrowed 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 Alas Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Action 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 Action Copy Share Image
