Charles Colton Quotes (16 Quotes)

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it

Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention there are many books that owe their success to two things good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit posterity will regard the merit rather than the man