Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

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.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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

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

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

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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.

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

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.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.