For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
Charles Caleb Colton