A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels the least will most excel in.

— Charles Caleb Colton