Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents — Charles Caleb Colton
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend — Charles Caleb Colton
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend — Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. — Charles Caleb Colton
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every. — Charles Caleb Colton
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own — Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it — Charles Caleb Colton
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton