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Danh ngôn của Charles Caleb Colton (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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.