Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
charity christianity
There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
horse funny-friend wife
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
truth roots errors
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
christian white house
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
ego chiefs results
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
revenge enemy remember
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
integrity men cost
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
christian lying thinking
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
men gold atheism
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.