Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

“The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.”

“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”

“The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.”

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

“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”

“I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.”

“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

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

“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”