Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

Charles Caleb Colton
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Charles Caleb Colton
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Charles Caleb Colton
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.

Charles Caleb Colton
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

Charles Caleb Colton