In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations, —in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

— Charles Caleb Colton