Charles Caleb Colton
45 quotations
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.