Charles Caleb Colton quotes

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

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.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.