To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to… — Charles Caleb Colton Imaginary Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Charles Caleb Colton Fool Copy Share Image
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Alliances Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea.… — Charles Caleb Colton Connected Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton Becoming Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his… — Charles Caleb Colton Behinds Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,… — Charles Caleb Colton All things Copy Share Image
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the… — Charles Caleb Colton Accounts Copy Share Image
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks… — Charles Caleb Colton Fool Copy Share Image
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search… — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged… — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton Impatience Copy Share Image
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of… — Charles Caleb Colton Allies Copy Share Image
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. — Charles Caleb Colton Blood Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he… — Charles Caleb Colton Claws Copy Share Image
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is… — Charles Caleb Colton Certain Copy Share Image
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
