True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton Enjoy Copy Share Image
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. — Charles Caleb Colton Agree Copy Share Image
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton Appreciate Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. — Charles Caleb Colton Education 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
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in… — Charles Caleb Colton Composition Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There… — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Authority Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Degrees 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
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. — Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge Copy Share Image
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know… — Charles Caleb Colton Greatness Copy Share Image
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton Easy Copy Share Image
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by… — Charles Caleb Colton Accused Copy Share Image
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,… — Charles Caleb Colton Companion Copy Share Image
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than… — Charles Caleb Colton Carts Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Admire Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Aggression Copy Share Image
