843 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.

When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.

It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them, is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.