The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton Brain 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
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted… — Charles Caleb Colton Enough Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates,… — Charles Caleb Colton Circulation Copy Share Image
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might… — Charles Caleb Colton Air Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Active Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Causes Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton Blank Copy Share Image
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton Climate Copy Share Image
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Barriers Copy Share Image
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. — Charles Caleb Colton Corruption Copy Share Image
It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what… — Charles Caleb Colton Bed Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a… — Charles Caleb Colton Age 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
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Compound interest Copy Share Image
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. — Charles Caleb Colton Insult Copy Share Image
She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful… — Charles Caleb Colton Daughter Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish 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
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Honest Copy Share Image
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
