The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
Charles Caleb ColtonLogic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
Charles Caleb ColtonMen are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton