The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational 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 art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Art Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Accumulation Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. — Charles Caleb Colton Butlers Copy Share Image
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not… — Charles Caleb Colton Add Copy Share Image
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with… — Charles Caleb Colton Court Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Despotism 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
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous,… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Battle Copy Share Image
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Cabinets 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
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Contending 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
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than… — Charles Caleb Colton He man 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
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
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them,… — Charles Caleb Colton Contemplating Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by… — Charles Caleb Colton Fancy Copy Share Image
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Allies Copy Share Image
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting… — Charles Caleb Colton Conversation Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Baths Copy Share Image
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in… — Charles Caleb Colton Known Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Approved Copy Share Image
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Duplicity Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes,… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish 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
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags,… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;… — Charles Caleb Colton Body 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
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with… — Charles Caleb Colton Daring 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
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
“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
