More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
  4. No roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
  5. Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
  6. Of the professions it may ge said that the soldiers are becoming too popular, parsons too lazy, physicians too mercenary, and lawyers too p…
  7. 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…
  8. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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