It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
Charles Caleb ColtonGenius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
Charles Caleb ColtonFor one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
Charles Caleb Colton