A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Dangerous Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Adjusting Copy Share Image
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs… — Charles Caleb Colton Inspiration Copy Share Image
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own… — Charles Caleb Colton Chimneys Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — Charles Caleb Colton Ability Copy Share Image
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route. — Charles Caleb Colton Great happiness Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Armor Copy Share Image
“He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much… — Charles Caleb Colton Money Copy Share Image
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Denial Copy Share Image
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton Cowardice Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Being true Copy Share Image
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Callous Copy Share Image
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. — Charles Caleb Colton Christian Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Ideas Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Abhorrence Copy Share Image
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude — Charles Caleb Colton Gratitude Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton Deformity Copy Share Image
