Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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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.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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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; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.