Charles Caleb Colton > Quotes

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“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.”
― 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

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“most men know what they hate; few what they love”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. ”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise
themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

“If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages.”
― 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

“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
― Charles Caleb Colton