Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

“I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.”

“There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.”

“The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.”

“Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.”

“We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.”

“A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipation 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.... We may lay in a...”

“Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.”

“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.”

“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”

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