Quotes

“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.” Charles Caleb Colton

“If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.” Charles Caleb Colton

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.” Charles Caleb Colton

“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.” Charles Caleb Colton

“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.” Charles Caleb Colton

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” Charles Caleb Colton

“We ask advice, but we mean approbation.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.” Charles Caleb Colton

“He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.” Charles Caleb Colton

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.” Charles Caleb Colton

“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Mystery is not profoundness.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.” Charles Caleb Colton

“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.” Charles Caleb Colton

“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.” Charles Caleb Colton

“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.” Charles Caleb Colton

“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.” Charles Caleb Colton

“When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.” Charles Caleb Colton