Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

Charles Caleb Colton

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once it’s set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to every thing but change, and even to change, if it recur not too quickly.

Charles Caleb Colton