Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton Conflict Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquisition 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
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Alone Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. — Charles Caleb Colton Deficiency Copy Share Image
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise 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
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know… — Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries Copy Share Image
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every… — Charles Caleb Colton Breasts 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
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
Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best… — Charles Caleb Colton Bloody Copy Share Image
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by… — Charles Caleb Colton Accused Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Deceiver Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Advancement Copy Share Image
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquittal Copy Share Image
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton Coward Copy Share Image
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Haste Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Answering Copy Share Image
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Chains Copy Share Image
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton Climate Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Firsts Copy Share Image
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Class Copy Share Image
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. — Charles Caleb Colton Insult Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton Difficult Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton Family Copy Share Image
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. — Charles Caleb Colton Investing Copy Share Image
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. — Charles Caleb Colton Advice Copy Share Image
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Antiquity Copy Share Image
