To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton