Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton Cords Copy Share Image
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Honest Copy Share Image
Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Cunning Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Environment Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Cutting Copy Share Image
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Credulity Copy Share Image
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to… — Charles Caleb Colton Appreciate 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
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Confined Copy Share Image
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze… — Charles Caleb Colton Apathy Copy Share Image
The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears… — Charles Caleb Colton Centre Copy Share Image
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the… — Charles Caleb Colton Company Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Assuming Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as… — Charles Caleb Colton Customs Copy Share Image
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. — Charles Caleb Colton Hate Copy Share Image
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is… — Charles Caleb Colton Alarms Copy Share Image
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton Age 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
