Quotes by : Charles Caleb Colton

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them....

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as....

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature....

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes....

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they....

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore....

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the....