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| Charles Caleb Colton
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adversity. He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. 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. If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. 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. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another. Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. There is a 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. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. |
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