Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
-
-
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
There are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Some 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 COLTON -
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON