Top 91 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

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 mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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

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

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.