Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
writing justice add
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
fortune difficulty careful
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
math magnificence study
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
party deception flattery
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
funny wise humor
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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.