Charles Caleb Colton famous quotes

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

#Motivational #Friendship #Best Friend

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Fitness #Flower #Fitness Motivational

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.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Vices #Three #Virtue

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Time #Past #Gone

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Money #Want #Littles

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

#Time #Advantage

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Time #Opportunity #Enemy

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Fashion #Pride #Vanity

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

#Leadership #Hope #Encouragement

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Fear #Despise

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Freedom #Tyrants #Mind

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Giving #Doe #Literature

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Inspiration #Men #Wife

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Happiness

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

#Change #Integrity #Roots

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Success #Congratulations #Adversity

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Wind #Literature #Wave

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Blessing #Two #Differences

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Imitation #Form

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Real #Writing #Editing

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Imitation

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

#Optimism #Doubt #Literature

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Love #Friendship #Heartbreak

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Friends #True Friend #Book

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Two #Literature #May

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Success #Silence #Achievement

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Form

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Humility #Exercise #Higher

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Fortune #Difficulty #Careful

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#War #Self Esteem #Loser

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

#Grows

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Wise #Men #Two

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Wise #Mistake #Men

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Conquer #Negotiation #Grants

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Mistake #Creativity #Science

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Writing #Justice #Add

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

#Love #Happiness #Dream

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Philosophy #Three #Literature

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Math #Magnificence #Study

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Teaching #Silence #Statistics

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Freedom #Blessing #People