Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDiscretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWar is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONStrong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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 COLTONSome read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMoney is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSelf-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHuman foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON