Charles Caleb Colton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.155
topic: Ambition, Son, Men, High Ambition
