Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Admiration Copy Share Image
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Brightness Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. — Charles Caleb Colton Claws Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Causes Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;… — Charles Caleb Colton Blessing Copy Share Image
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton Foolish Copy Share Image
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. — Charles Caleb Colton Choices Copy Share Image
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Cases Copy Share Image
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. — Charles Caleb Colton Prudence Copy Share Image
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented… — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton Discharge Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in… — Charles Caleb Colton Faults Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Agnosticism Copy Share Image
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift… — Charles Caleb Colton Circulation Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Despotism Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. — Charles Caleb Colton Animal Copy Share Image
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is… — Charles Caleb Colton Affirmation Copy Share Image
