The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Power Quotes, Religion Quotes

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

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...

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to...

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to...

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The...

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The...

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who...

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try...

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the...

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return...

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return...

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler...

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler...

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.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

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...

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

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