Top 91 Quotes by 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.

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

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

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

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.