Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new… — Charles Caleb Colton Change Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel 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
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that… — Charles Caleb Colton Dies Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Anything Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton Bleak Copy Share Image
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish Copy Share Image
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton Comment Copy Share Image
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations… — Charles Caleb Colton Found Copy Share Image
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton Cement Copy Share Image
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. — Charles Caleb Colton Assistance Copy Share Image
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. — Charles Caleb Colton Attainment Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Art 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
“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it… — Charles Caleb Colton Acceptance Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Choices Copy Share Image
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. — Charles Caleb Colton All things Copy Share Image
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Built Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by… — Charles Caleb Colton Battle Copy Share Image
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Deformity Copy Share Image
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton Certain Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
