The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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 COLTONIf merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTotal freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMuch may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON