The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching. Charles Caleb Colton View this quote
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please. Charles Caleb Colton
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men’s heads. Charles Caleb Colton
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. Charles Caleb Colton
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. Charles Caleb Colton
He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed. Charles Caleb Colton
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Charles Caleb Colton
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. Charles Caleb Colton
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
British priest and writer
January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832
