None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Charles Caleb Colton Dinner Copy Share Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. — Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry Copy Share Image
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. — Charles Caleb Colton Education Copy Share Image
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. — Charles Caleb Colton Disciple Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are… — Charles Caleb Colton Champagne Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Accidents Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths. — Charles Caleb Colton Bounds Copy Share Image
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion. — Charles Caleb Colton Communication Copy Share Image
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation. — Charles Caleb Colton Courage Copy Share Image
