Quotes By Charles Caleb Colton
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Charles Caleb Colton
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb Colton