Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Haste Copy Share Image
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
There can be no Christianity where there is no charity — Charles Caleb Colton Charity Copy Share Image
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. — Charles Caleb Colton Investing Copy Share Image
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection. — Charles Caleb Colton Affection Copy Share Image
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. — Charles Caleb Colton Bashful Copy Share Image
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton Foolish Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Bottom 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
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Environment Copy Share Image
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? — Charles Caleb Colton Ifs Copy Share Image
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic… — Charles Caleb Colton Critic Copy Share Image
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace.… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me… — Charles Caleb Colton Add Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Associates 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
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
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often… — Charles Caleb Colton Blood Copy Share Image
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far… — Charles Caleb Colton Efficient Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Belief 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
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Cheat 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
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Causes Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Addresses Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Alchemist Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. — Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. — Charles Caleb Colton Coat Copy Share Image
