John Churton Collins (1848–1908) was a British literary critic. Churton Collins was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. From King Edward’s School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England, The Study of English Literature, a study of Dean Swift, Essays and Studies, Ephemera Critica, Essays in Poetry and Criticism, and Rousseau and Voltaire, his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.
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To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Friendship
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Trust
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Vice, Perspective
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Wisdom
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Profit, Advice
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Friendship, Adversity
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Envy, Anxiety, Jealousy, Fear
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Danger
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Mistakes
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Advice
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Foolishness, Fools
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
—John Churton Collins
Topics: Confidence
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