Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. — Charles Caleb Colton Conquer Copy Share Image
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton Marriage Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. — Charles Caleb Colton Education Copy Share Image
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. — Charles Caleb Colton Excessive Copy Share Image
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Chosen Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton Becoming Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Branches Copy Share Image
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Destination Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Asking Copy Share Image
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that… — Charles Caleb Colton Buried Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Easier Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Accounts Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Envy Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Cases Copy Share Image
It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped… — Charles Caleb Colton Contempt Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Condensation Copy Share Image
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter… — Charles Caleb Colton Compliment 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
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Brain Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will… — Charles Caleb Colton Causes Copy Share Image
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people… — Charles Caleb Colton Flow Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Appearance Copy Share Image
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton Facility Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. — Charles Caleb Colton Disciple Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Clauses Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Doors Copy Share Image
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton Age 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 Defense Copy Share Image
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton Be careful Copy Share Image
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry. — Charles Caleb Colton Butlers Copy Share Image
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she… — Charles Caleb Colton Animated Copy Share Image
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Alive Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other… — Charles Caleb Colton Forget Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been… — Charles Caleb Colton Captivated Copy Share Image
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