Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
love happiness dream
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
happiness mind faces
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
happiness time he-makes-me-happy
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
regret sleep insomnia
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
heart envy people
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
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.
grace imitation facility
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
men evil temptation
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.