Charles Caleb Colton

“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”

“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”

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

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

“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”

“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.”

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

“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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