A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Honest Copy Share Image
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. — Charles Caleb Colton Hate Copy Share Image
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight — Charles Caleb Colton Female Copy Share Image
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton Bad memories Copy Share Image
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. — Charles Caleb Colton Fickle Copy Share Image
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. — Charles Caleb Colton Animal 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
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for… — 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
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
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue… They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is… — Charles Caleb Colton Abuse Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton Impatience Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Endurance Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton Fear Copy Share Image
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquainted Copy Share Image
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. — Charles Caleb Colton Adolescent Copy Share Image
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. — Charles Caleb Colton Aging Copy Share Image
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it . — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. — Charles Caleb Colton Being a hypocrite Copy Share Image
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
