Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route. — Charles Caleb Colton Great happiness Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. — Charles Caleb Colton Condensation Copy Share Image
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational 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
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. — Charles Caleb Colton Investing Copy Share Image
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton Family Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Compound interest 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
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Despondency Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope… Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Decline Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Body 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Destruction Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Boast Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law… — Charles Caleb Colton 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 Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
