Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
They who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this, have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry – the power of their idol. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
The man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
