Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. Colton's books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way, and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another.
Books like friends should be few and well chosen. Like friends too we should return to them again and again, for like true friends they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty, it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it.