If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
Charles Caleb ColtonFor all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton