Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton