More quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

"Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours."
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live"
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."