All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.
Charles Caleb ColtonToo high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
Charles Caleb ColtonOf all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
Charles Caleb ColtonDeliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton