Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known >>

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he lose >>

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation >>

Quotations about Ambition

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the >>

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds. >>

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image >>

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Colton, Charles Caleb