Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.