Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton