41 quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”— Charles Caleb Colton

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

“Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”— 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

“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.”— 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

“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”— 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

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

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”— Charles Caleb Colton