Quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

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.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.