Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

“Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.”

“He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.”

“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportuniti...”

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

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

“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”

“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. The former would seem most necessary for t...”

“Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.”

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

“Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.”

“True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.”

“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”

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

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

“A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.”

“The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.”

“Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.”

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

“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.”