Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.Charles Caleb Colton
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least - - The privilege of making others happy.Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.Charles Caleb Colton
To 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 Colton
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.Charles Caleb Colton
We 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 Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.Charles Caleb Colton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.Charles Caleb Colton
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.Charles Caleb Colton
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.Charles Caleb Colton
To 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 Colton
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.Charles Caleb Colton
Many 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 Colton
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.Charles Caleb Colton
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
We 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 Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
