Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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