Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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.
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 cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.
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 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.
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.