Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,__n determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other__t is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

most men know what they hate few what they love

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

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

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.