More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other when they have time. But the present time…
  2. Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
  3. Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
  4. Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheles…
  5. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
  6. Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
  7. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
  8. No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integri…

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