Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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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.
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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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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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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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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.