Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
medicine easy harm
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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.
home house may
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
gossip males female
There are male as well as female gossips.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
god magnitude
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
grace imitation facility
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
hug thousand
A hug is worth a thousand words.
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.