The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

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