The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first… — Charles Caleb Colton Authority Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can… — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make… — Charles Caleb Colton Advice Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Envied Copy Share Image
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton Begets Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those… — Charles Caleb Colton Bait Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our… — Charles Caleb Colton Air Copy Share Image
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion. — Charles Caleb Colton Communication Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Accumulation Copy Share Image
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known… — Charles Caleb Colton Fool Copy Share Image
It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. — Charles Caleb Colton Experience Copy Share Image
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton Firm Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;… — Charles Caleb Colton Beauty Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in… — Charles Caleb Colton Borrowed Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on… — Charles Caleb Colton Agree Copy Share Image
Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is… — Charles Caleb Colton Beautiful Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on… — Charles Caleb Colton Agree Copy Share Image
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to… — Charles Caleb Colton Cowardice Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Antithesis Copy Share Image
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have… — Charles Caleb Colton Accidents Copy Share Image
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Bullying Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for… — Charles Caleb Colton Affluent Copy Share Image
