The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Ca...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us p...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, i...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pr...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mains...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is presse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very prof...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ask advice but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man,...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to r...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no s...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, liv...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest ar...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our frie...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attache...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, l...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as tho...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and wa...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and si...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Mystery is not profoundness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying e...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be E...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than suff...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talkin...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least ti...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest flattery
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally m...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a somet...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pri...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Hu...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health;...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove y...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pr...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, wh...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and sim...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mos...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, an...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is general...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hott...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man ar...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by o...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school....
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted an...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most en...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must fi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are bot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON