Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton Read Quote
