Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. — Charles Caleb Colton May Copy Share Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. — Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry Copy Share Image
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. — Charles Caleb Colton Agree Copy Share Image
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Charles Caleb Colton Dinner Copy Share Image
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. — Charles Caleb Colton Coat Copy Share Image
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton Charity Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money… — Charles Caleb Colton Guy Copy Share Image
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a… — Charles Caleb Colton Errors Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Enjoyed Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Human nature 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
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. — Charles Caleb Colton Book 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
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Awkward 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
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will… — Charles Caleb Colton Atmosphere Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Aggression Copy Share Image
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. — Charles Caleb Colton Corruption Copy Share Image
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton Antiquity Copy Share Image
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. — Charles Caleb Colton Errors Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — Charles Caleb Colton Common Copy Share Image
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton Done Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Being wrong Copy Share Image
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. — Charles Caleb Colton Enemies Copy Share Image
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. — Charles Caleb Colton Draws Copy Share Image
No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power — Charles Caleb Colton Good enough Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friend Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Deceiver Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton Energy Copy Share Image
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
