Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

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.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Mystery is not profoundness.

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

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

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.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.