Top 91 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

When you have nothing to say, say 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.

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

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

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.