Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
flattery imitation form
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
blessing two differences
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.
branches common truth-is
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
science mind cost
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
real writing editing
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
happiness mazes routes
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
tolerance saint rough
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
optimism doubt literature
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
teaching silence statistics
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.