Top 91 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.