Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. >>

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeat >>

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. >>

Quotations about Mystery

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting >>

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in ou >>

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have >>

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Colton, Charles Caleb