41 quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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