The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching. Charles Caleb Colton View this quote
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it. Charles Caleb Colton
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men! Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. Charles Caleb Colton
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. Charles Caleb Colton
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain. Charles Caleb Colton
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Charles Caleb Colton
God is as great in minuteness as he is in magnitude. Charles Caleb Colton
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. Charles Caleb Colton
British priest and writer
January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832
