Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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.
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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 drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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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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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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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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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.