Top 91 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

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

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.