Quotes Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance....

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost....

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like fri...

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory...

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversi...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit...

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling i...

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, t...

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and ...

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before th...

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for t...

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - neve...

Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adve...

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the danc...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go furth...

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that ...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant...

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be,...

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent...

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can w...

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down...

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her abo...

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that...