It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton Indifference Copy Share Image
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. — Charles Caleb Colton Brave Copy Share Image
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Beautiful 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
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 Copy Share Image
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry. — Charles Caleb Colton Butlers Copy Share Image
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Alive Copy Share Image
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Abhorrence Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. — Charles Caleb Colton Threats Copy Share Image
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results. — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
