We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONRevenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf 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 COLTONHappiness leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTo know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFalsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWomen do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImitation is the highest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTime 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 COLTONNo man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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 COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON