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Charles Caleb Colton society

Charles Caleb Colton | society

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

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Charles Caleb Colton religion

Charles Caleb Colton | religion

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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Charles Caleb Colton religion

Charles Caleb Colton | religion

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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Charles Caleb Colton religion

Charles Caleb Colton | religion

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

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Charles Caleb Colton power

Charles Caleb Colton | power

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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Charles Caleb Colton politics

Charles Caleb Colton | politics

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

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Charles Caleb Colton patience

Charles Caleb Colton | patience

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

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Charles Caleb Colton men

Charles Caleb Colton | men

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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Charles Caleb Colton men

Charles Caleb Colton | men

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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Charles Caleb Colton men

Charles Caleb Colton | men

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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