Quotes by 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.”

“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.”

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

“The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.”

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

“Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”

“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”

“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”

“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.”