Top 91 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

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.