He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
– Charles Caleb Colton
My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones–Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
– Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
– Charles Caleb Colton
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
– CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
– Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
– Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
– Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
– Charles Caleb Colton