Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
age waste excess
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
names inheritance proud
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
mind pay talent
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
lying men shining
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
horse talking race
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
talking judging mind
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.
responsibility attainment humans
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
talking world human-nature
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
wise time ambition
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.