Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
littles revolution events
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
health disease vices
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.
cute time years
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
inspirational mean literature
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.