What did Charles Caleb Colton mean by: Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman … the want of it is her greatest deformity. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Deformity, Modesty, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Change, Fallacy, Truth, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Balance, Learning, Wisdom, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Conflict, Unity, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Forgiveness, Injustice, Power, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Conflict, Dedication, Hypocrisy, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Deception, Intentions, Secrets, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Knowledge, Protection, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. Jefferson Davis Politician · USA
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart. Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. Lucy Stone Activist · USA