Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
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.
fear despise
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
leadership hope encouragement
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
fashion pride clothes
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
happiness time he-makes-me-happy
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
philosophy literature three
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.