Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the…

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be…

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the…

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. Charles Caleb Colton

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to…

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy…

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton