Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes From Charles Caleb Colton It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy. Charles Caleb Colton easier hypocrisy littles The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. Charles Caleb Colton criminals law justice The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good. Charles Caleb Colton legislation medicine easy It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton statesmanship statesmen evil There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. Charles Caleb Colton rogues men two Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton crime thousand religion Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave Charles Caleb Colton funeral littles attention Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. Charles Caleb Colton pity comment misfortunes In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. Charles Caleb Colton wine water order All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. Charles Caleb Colton tribes writing pay The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. Charles Caleb Colton miserable pleasure men He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton vanity world fall Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Charles Caleb Colton cradle nurse lying Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. Charles Caleb Colton kings feet two The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Charles Caleb Colton forgiveness forgiving enemy Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. Charles Caleb Colton gravity wise foolish There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Charles Caleb Colton wise men thinking Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. Charles Caleb Colton nevertheless flattery despise The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton self names country Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. Charles Caleb Colton sublime witty profound
