Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
cities literature village
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
inspiring kindness inspiration
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
god men law
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
strength patience support
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
inspirational inspiring time
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
wise heart wine
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.