1. Charles Caleb Colton - “Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.”

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2. Charles Caleb Colton - “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.”

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3. Charles Caleb Colton - “It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”

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4. Charles Caleb Colton - “Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”

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5. Charles Caleb Colton - “It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.”

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6. Charles Caleb Colton - “He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, And time are three things that never stand still.”

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7. Charles Caleb Colton - “Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.”

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8. 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.”

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9. Charles Caleb Colton - “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”

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10. Charles Caleb Colton - “The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.”

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11. Charles Caleb Colton - “The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, And her constant companion is Humility.”

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12. Charles Caleb Colton - “The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”

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13. Charles Caleb Colton - “There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.”

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14. Charles Caleb Colton - “There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”

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15. 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 seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.”

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16. Charles Caleb Colton - “True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

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17. Charles Caleb Colton - “We often pretend to fear what we really despise, And more often despise what we really fear.”

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18. Charles Caleb Colton - “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

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19. Charles Caleb Colton - “It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we do.”

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20. Charles Caleb Colton - “There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; But he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

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21. Charles Caleb Colton - “That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.”

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22. Charles Caleb Colton - “Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

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23. Charles Caleb Colton - “Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but - live for it.”

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24. Charles Caleb Colton - “Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”

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25. Charles Caleb Colton - “Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.”

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