The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Bitter Copy Share Image
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it… — Charles Caleb Colton Archangel Copy Share Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform.… — Charles Caleb Colton Communicate Copy Share Image
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike… — Charles Caleb Colton Constant Copy Share Image
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. — Charles Caleb Colton May Copy Share Image
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not. — Charles Caleb Colton Attention Copy Share Image
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Praise 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
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Comets Copy Share Image
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first… — Charles Caleb Colton Firsts Copy Share Image
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity 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 two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that… — Charles Caleb Colton Cabinets Copy Share Image
“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Allies Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Concealed Copy Share Image
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Curious Copy Share Image
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. — Charles Caleb Colton Crime Copy Share Image
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for… — Charles Caleb Colton Contentment Copy Share Image
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence… — Charles Caleb Colton Be good Copy Share Image
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that… — Charles Caleb Colton Hot Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquire Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton Advertising Copy Share Image
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing… — Charles Caleb Colton Coffins Copy Share Image
