Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ”

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ”

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. ”

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ”

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ”

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ”

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ”

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ”

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. ”

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ”