Charles Caleb Colton Profound Quotations

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.