A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONCheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLet those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFor one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONUnlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON