The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching. Charles Caleb Colton View this quote
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. Charles Caleb Colton
A hug is worth a thousand words. Charles Caleb Colton
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. Charles Caleb Colton
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. Charles Caleb Colton
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. Charles Caleb Colton
British priest and writer
January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832
