Maxioms by Charles Caleb Colton
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a read more
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the read more
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay
