Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.