Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
diffidence uncertainty
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
men fellow-man opinion
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
men suffering vices
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
medicine easy harm
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
fog sun mystery
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
flattery despise flattered
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.