Quotes by Walter Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

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

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

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.

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.