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Charles Caleb Colton
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
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Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
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Charles Caleb Colton
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
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Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real its pleasures imaginary.
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Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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Charles Caleb Colton
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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