It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes From Charles Caleb Colton Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body. Charles Caleb Colton physicians weakness mind That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Charles Caleb Colton cowardice power overcoming The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak. Charles Caleb Colton powerful weak said Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in. Charles Caleb Colton speech art school There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Charles Caleb Colton fraud stupid would-be The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend. Charles Caleb Colton would-be mind science Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. Charles Caleb Colton branches common science It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors Charles Caleb Colton errors truth science Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. Charles Caleb Colton blessing perfect men The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. Charles Caleb Colton yield perseverance opportunity There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon. Charles Caleb Colton kings writing men We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. Charles Caleb Colton fire should-have writing With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions... Charles Caleb Colton companion writing book What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession. Charles Caleb Colton broken clouds happiness Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it. Charles Caleb Colton envy jealousy passion The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world. Charles Caleb Colton respect healthy taken 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. Charles Caleb Colton privacy faces writing In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone? Charles Caleb Colton usual asking may In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. Charles Caleb Colton disgusted association impossible Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. Charles Caleb Colton lost-friendship passion love
