Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you wou >>

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, wi >>

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There >>

A wicked book cannot repent. >>

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also wri >>

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb