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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."
- Charles Caleb Colton. | |
"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."
- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820, More quotation on Books. | |
"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."
- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825, More quotation on Money. | |
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."
- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825, More quotation on Power. | |
"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."
- Charles Caleb Colton. | |
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
- Charles Caleb Colton. | |
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
- Charles Caleb Colton. | |
"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."
- Charles Caleb Colton, More quotation on Prejudice. | |
"There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter."
- Charles Caleb Colton, More quotation on Reputation. | |
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."
- Charles Caleb Colton. |
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