Charles Caleb Colton

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

"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."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."

"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."

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."