Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
ocean moon men
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
sweet smell long
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
retirement solitude world
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.
men rogues sides
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
enemy causes violent
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
zealous failing conversion
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
jesus cunning disciple
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
heart wind criticism
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.