Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of… — Charles Caleb Colton Desert Copy Share Image
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Integrity Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Character 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
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Cures 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
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Awkward Copy Share Image
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. — Charles Caleb Colton Ghost Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton Fear Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant… — Charles Caleb Colton Constitution Copy Share Image
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies — Charles Caleb Colton Faculty Copy Share Image
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. — Charles Caleb Colton Aging Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Abyss Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Easier Copy Share Image
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. — Charles Caleb Colton Cradle Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Advancement Copy Share Image
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. — Charles Caleb Colton Bundles Copy Share Image
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be… — Charles Caleb Colton Excellence Copy Share Image
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Astonishing Copy Share Image
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that… — Charles Caleb Colton Rough Copy Share Image
