Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

most men know what they hate few what they love

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

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

Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

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

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.