“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“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.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton