Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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 COLTONThat is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTrue friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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 COLTONCommerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWar is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON