Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
design soul secrecy
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
men two rogues
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
pity comment misfortunes
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
men miserable pleasure
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
medicine easy harm
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
hypocrisy littles easier
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
home house may
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.