More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. We ought not to be over anxious to encourage innovation, in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages …
  2. We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
  3. We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
  4. We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
  5. War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
  6. True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
  7. To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: The pains of po…
  8. To know exactly how much mischief may be ventured upon with impunity is knowledge sufficient for a little great man.

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