If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Debt Copy Share Image
Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it… — Charles Caleb Colton Arches Copy Share Image
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton Done Copy Share Image
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Contending Copy Share Image
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic… — Charles Caleb Colton Critics Copy Share Image
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Advisable Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Alchemist Copy Share Image
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money… — Charles Caleb Colton Guy Copy Share Image
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton Common Copy Share Image
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches,… — Charles Caleb Colton Commonwealth Copy Share Image
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Christian Copy Share Image
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton Bed Copy Share Image
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of… — Charles Caleb Colton Certain Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Amiable Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Baths Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Despondency Copy Share Image
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a… — Charles Caleb Colton Balance Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Decline Copy Share Image
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in… — Charles Caleb Colton Contrast Copy Share Image
