To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to… — Charles Caleb Colton Chance Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Blessing Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Learning Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Alive Copy Share Image
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Doors Copy Share Image
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton Absurdity Copy Share Image
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that… — Charles Caleb Colton Censure Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton Family 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
“If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any… — CHARLES CALEB COLTON Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Asking Copy Share Image
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what… — Charles Caleb Colton Easy Copy Share Image
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they… — Charles Caleb Colton Currency Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what… — Charles Caleb Colton Bottom Copy Share Image
