Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
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.
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.
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.
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.