3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
3 December 2020 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.
