There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Chance Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Admire Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Dangerous Copy Share Image
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude — Charles Caleb Colton Gratitude Copy Share Image
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks… — Charles Caleb Colton Fool Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Birth Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Audience 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
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a… — Charles Caleb Colton Awkwardness Copy Share Image
