“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.”

About Charles Caleb Colton

1780 – 1832

English cleric and writer, author of "Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words".

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

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.”

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

“I never "worry" about action, but only about inaction.”

“The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear.”

“Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness.”