Quotes Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less c...

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom sa...

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is ...

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write becau...

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmati...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanit...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but whic...

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise th...

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or or...

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and ...

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches,...

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than...

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order th...

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order th...

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes....

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with ...

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time ...

Mystery is not profoundness....

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that...

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch th...

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep...

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and...

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and d...

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praise...

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion ...