Quotes Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence....

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he th...

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest ...

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with the...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive f...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeak...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are...

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than h...

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to ...

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was la...

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is sel...

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter t...

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushe...

We ask advice, but we mean approbation....

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will n...

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more of...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed...

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has littl...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm y...

When you have nothing to say, say nothing....

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others b...

Theories are private property, but truth is common sto...

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

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree ...