Charles Caleb Colton Quotes about Soul

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Greed, Soul, Extravagance

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Book, Men, Soul

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.416

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Soul, Prison

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.344

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Design, Soul, Enemy

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Design, Soul, Secrecy

Charles Caleb Colton (1812). “Hypocrisy: A Satire”, p.167

Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heart, Perfect, Soul

Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Soul, Secret, Mind

Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.137