Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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In 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.
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
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Mystery is not profoundness.
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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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.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.