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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.Charles Caleb Colton
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Men spend their lives in anticipations, –in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other–it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb Colton
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to liveCharles Caleb Colton
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.Charles Caleb Colton
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.Charles Caleb Colton
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flameCharles Caleb Colton
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Most men know what they hate few what they loveCharles Caleb Colton
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.Charles Caleb Colton
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A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.Charles Caleb Colton
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.Charles Caleb Colton
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.Charles Caleb Colton
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.Charles Caleb Colton
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.Charles Caleb Colton
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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.Charles Caleb Colton
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.Charles Caleb Colton
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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. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.Charles Caleb Colton
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.Charles Caleb Colton
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.Charles Caleb Colton
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Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.Charles Caleb Colton
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.Charles Caleb Colton
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.Charles Caleb Colton
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True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.Charles Caleb Colton
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.Charles Caleb Colton
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.Charles Caleb Colton
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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.Charles Caleb Colton
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Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.Charles Caleb Colton
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The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.Charles Caleb Colton
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Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.Charles Caleb Colton
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Mystery is not profoundness.Charles Caleb Colton
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.Charles Caleb Colton
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.Charles Caleb Colton
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We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.Charles Caleb Colton
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Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.Charles Caleb Colton
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.Charles Caleb Colton
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If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
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A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.Charles Caleb Colton
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Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb Colton
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Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.Charles Caleb Colton
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Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.Charles Caleb Colton
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Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.Charles Caleb Colton
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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.Charles Caleb Colton
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He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.Charles Caleb Colton
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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.Charles Caleb Colton
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.Charles Caleb Colton
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.Charles Caleb Colton
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.Charles Caleb Colton
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.Charles Caleb Colton
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship — never.Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.Charles Caleb Colton
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.Charles Caleb Colton