It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it…

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise...

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise...

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

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

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward...

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward...

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

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

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant...

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events...

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

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

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many...

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many...

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should...

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should...

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it...

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it...

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock...

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock...

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored...

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored...

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take...

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take...