Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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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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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
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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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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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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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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.
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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.