The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton American revolution Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Circumstances Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been… — Charles Caleb Colton Captivated Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Crime Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Cost Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton Absurdity Copy Share Image
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — Charles Caleb Colton Certain Copy Share Image
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of… — Charles Caleb Colton Adultery Copy Share Image
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton Envied Copy Share Image
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his… — Charles Caleb Colton Bread Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Atrocities Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Affliction Copy Share Image
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another… — Charles Caleb Colton Defeat Copy Share Image
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton Crime Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Birth Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Anguish Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Benefactors Copy Share Image
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved? — Charles Caleb Colton Anticipate Copy Share Image
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
