Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
certainly english-writer stand three time virtue
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
sloth laziness virtue
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
slumber virtue villainy
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
men abuse virtue
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.
vices moral virtue
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
wages gains virtue
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
born men order twice
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
giving literature doe
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
flattery form
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
duplicity english-writer full integrity simple trick
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
ability apply energies growing mental physical requisite success
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
difference generally greatest happiest happiness himself thinks
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
good man trusted unlimited wise
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.