Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Quotations

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

» To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

» We ask advice but we mean approbation.

» Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

» There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

» Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

» Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

» It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

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

» Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

» The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

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