Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”

“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”

“Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.”

“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”

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

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

“Mystery is not profoundness.”

“There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.”

“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.”