Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
