Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
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.
wise men two
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
flattery imitation form
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
truth common theory
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
teaching silence statistics
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
philosophy literature three
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.