Physical courage that 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 former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Agur said, “Give me neither poverty nor riches”; and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing, […]
As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was […]
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the other.
Let any of those who renounce Christianity write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it, and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Corporeal charms may indeed gain admirers, but there must be mental ones to retain them.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
