Quotes Charles Caleb Colton

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and p...

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of ...

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man...

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a pers...

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness whe...

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest...

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolis...

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; f...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most know...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to t...

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although ...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age a...

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual advers...

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your...

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is ...

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is ...

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to ...

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is ...

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of ...

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minutenes...

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our ...

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stu...

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anythin...

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indiff...

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be pr...