Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
god magnitude
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
gossip males female
There are male as well as female gossips.
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
home house may
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
hypocrisy littles easier
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
snow moral-corruption rolling
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
horse thinking winning
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
health disease vices
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.
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.