843 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings – health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least – the privilege of making others happy.

That an author’s work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

Much too oft we make life gloomy – When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse – a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.