Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.


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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
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON