Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. -Charles Caleb Colton God
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. -Charles Caleb Colton Alone
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. -Charles Caleb Colton Friendship
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. -Charles Caleb Colton Happiness
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. -Charles Caleb Colton Education
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. -Charles Caleb Colton Wisdom
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. -Charles Caleb Colton Wisdom
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. -Charles Caleb Colton Great
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. -Charles Caleb Colton Happiness
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. -Charles Caleb Colton Age
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. -Charles Caleb Colton Time
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. -Charles Caleb Colton Wisdom
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. -Charles Caleb Colton Happiness
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 Men
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. -Charles Caleb Colton Relationship
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. -Charles Caleb Colton Best
