The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

—Charles Caleb Colton

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

—William Shakespeare

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

—Titus Maccius Plautus

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

—Mark Twain

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

—Madam Guizot

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold