If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
Charles Caleb ColtonAll adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
Charles Caleb ColtonMathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
Charles Caleb Colton