Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb ColtonTo know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb ColtonLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb ColtonBigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb ColtonLaw and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb ColtonMen are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb ColtonTimes of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb ColtonMany books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb ColtonNothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb ColtonModeration is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Charles Caleb ColtonThat writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb ColtonIn religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb ColtonDeliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb ColtonOf present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb ColtonFriendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Charles Caleb ColtonTo 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.
Charles Caleb ColtonPosthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
