Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
friends true-friend book
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
determination past age
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
hate anger racism
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
book healing good-friend
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
flattery form
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
giving literature doe
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
flattery imitation
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
freedom tyrants mind
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
wise mistake men
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
blessing two differences
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.