Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. We ask advice, but we mean approbation. We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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