Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ”

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ”

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. ”

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. ”

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ”

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ”

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ”

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. ”

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ”