Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

most men know what they hate few what they love

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