This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
Charles Caleb ColtonFlattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
Charles Caleb ColtonKnavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
Charles Caleb ColtonOf all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
Charles Caleb ColtonShining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
Charles Caleb Colton