We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Antithesis 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 Absurd 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 Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There… — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Action 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
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;… — Charles Caleb Colton Blessing Copy Share Image
Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a… — Charles Caleb Colton Balance Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant… — Charles Caleb Colton Constitution Copy Share Image
