Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
book reading writing
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.
life book logical
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
friendship adversity ties
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
done literature harm
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.