The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, then their own hearts in their closet.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

— Charles Caleb Colton

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

— Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

— Charles Caleb Colton