Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAs the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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 COLTONPride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLife isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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 COLTONIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONI have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDiffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON