Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ”

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. ”

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ”

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. ”

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ”

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. ”

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ”

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ”