Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
giving literature doe
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
cities literature village
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
done literature harm
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
death medicine literature
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
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.
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.