Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.… — Charles Caleb Colton Blessing Copy Share Image
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
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned… — Charles Caleb Colton Arrows Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. — Charles Caleb Colton Cat Copy Share Image
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. — Charles Caleb Colton Can do Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Built 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
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows… — Charles Caleb Colton Attention Copy Share Image
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference. — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration Copy Share Image
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other… — Charles Caleb Colton Ignorant Copy Share Image
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Appearance 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
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue… — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Association Copy Share Image
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton Accounts Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Branches Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other… — Charles Caleb Colton Forget Copy Share Image
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton Antiquity Copy Share Image
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar… — Charles Caleb Colton Clouds Copy Share Image
