Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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 greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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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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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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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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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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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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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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.