Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Class Copy Share Image
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Chains Copy Share Image
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton Climate Copy Share Image
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice Copy Share Image
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton Haste Copy Share Image
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Affliction 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
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
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.… — Charles Caleb Colton Advancement Copy Share Image
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Anguish Copy Share Image
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
