Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true…

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse…

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

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books…

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a…

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more…

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we…

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those…

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity…

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner…

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed…

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who…

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never…

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty…

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost…