Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes From Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton improving life people "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. Charles Caleb Colton chosen lawyer judging Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. Charles Caleb Colton adversity blessing sometimes Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. Charles Caleb Colton denial self believe Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. Charles Caleb Colton haste strong mind A hug is worth a thousand words. Charles Caleb Colton hug thousand No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned. Charles Caleb Colton men two years In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton law justice water The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton highest genius reason The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton whole-family pride ignorance The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer. Charles Caleb Colton giants speech literature It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton medical may people When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. Charles Caleb Colton opponents defense silence It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton power mistake order None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton purpose secret mean From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil. Charles Caleb Colton temptation evil men Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. Charles Caleb Colton deeper ignorance lying Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. Charles Caleb Colton lost-friendship sinister motive No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Charles Caleb Colton writing believe book Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton calendars fool time
