Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Difficult Copy Share Image
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Blinded Copy Share Image
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect… — Charles Caleb Colton Caution Copy Share Image
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. — Charles Caleb Colton Calendars Copy Share Image
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Air Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — Charles Caleb Colton Deserving Copy Share Image
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes… — Charles Caleb Colton Concept of time Copy Share Image
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not… — Charles Caleb Colton Cures Copy Share Image
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Belief Copy Share Image
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she… — Charles Caleb Colton Anchors Copy Share Image
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Animal Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. — Charles Caleb Colton Disciple Copy Share Image
It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than… — Charles Caleb Colton Care Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Ancestry Copy Share Image
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people… — Charles Caleb Colton Flow Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Balls Copy Share Image
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight — Charles Caleb Colton Female Copy Share Image
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the… — Charles Caleb Colton Activity Copy Share Image
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how… — Charles Caleb Colton Coincidence 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
