Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Charles Caleb Colton Dinner Copy Share Image
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Endurance 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
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity… — Charles Caleb Colton Blood Copy Share Image
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton Foolish Copy Share Image
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of… — Charles Caleb Colton Communication Copy Share Image
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Haste Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Appropriate Copy Share Image
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. — Charles Caleb Colton Games Copy Share Image
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,… — Charles Caleb Colton Applause Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Believe 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
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Application Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an… — Charles Caleb Colton Funny Copy Share Image
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Argument Copy Share Image
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results. — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Explanation Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton Comprehensive Copy Share Image
“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants… — Charles Caleb Colton Money Copy Share Image
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
