“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.Quote by Charles Caleb ColtonTopics: Quotes about Charles Caleb ColtonShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events...#Consequences
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...#Fame, #Funerals
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get...#Charles Caleb Colton
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it...#Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and...#Charles Caleb Colton
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and...#Charles Caleb Colton