Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.