Quotes About Charles Caleb Colton

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

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.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.