He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
In politics, as in religion, we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
When the millions applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution, or of a bad memory!
