It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
Charles Caleb ColtonExtemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.
Charles Caleb Colton