Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which...

#Government

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion...

#Love

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is...

#Money

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

#Books

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

#Books

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

#Books

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple...

#Books

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

#Power

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to...

#Pain, #Power

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

#Power, #Religion

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those...

#Knowledge

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

#Advice