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 ColtonThere are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb ColtonNatural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton