Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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 greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

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

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.