Author of quotes: Charles Caleb Colton

The era of the great disasters usually produce great geniuses of the purest gold is obtained from the hottest furnace, and the brightest lightning always in a gloomy storm.

As the moral decline of the nation on poverty, looking with great contempt, and wealth - all with great respect.

Happiness is distributed more evenly than it seems some.

We are more inclined to learn from other people's vices than virtues: the disease is far more contagious than health.

As noted by sir Richard Steele, the difference between the Catholic and the Anglican Church is that the first considers himself infallible, and second, that she's never wrong.

That's the difference between happiness and wisdom: he who thinks himself most happy is really the most happy; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is likely the biggest fool.

Most of all I love the secrets of those who are not able to keep them.

Turks say: the devil tempts all, but the lazy man tempts the devil.

All the lies that successfully exchanged between the man and woman in love would never be accepted on faith in the relations between man and man or between woman and woman.

The beauty of the body can attract true fans, but in order to keep them, you want the beauty of the soul.

A beautiful woman, if she is poor, should be doubly circumspect, because her beauty will seduce another, and her poverty will seduce her.

Idleness has ruined more women than passion, vanity more than idleness, gullibility same - more than idleness and vanity combined.

In any field of science professors prefer their own theories to the truth, because their theory is their personal property, but the truth is common property.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, and the objective is for the weak.