Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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

#Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing...

#Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on...

#Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to...

#Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

#Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would...

#Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if...

#Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

#Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as...

#Charles Caleb Colton

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

#Charles Caleb Colton

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

#Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly...

#Charles Caleb Colton