That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
Charles Caleb ColtonAll poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
Charles Caleb ColtonSuccess seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
Charles Caleb ColtonPosthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.
Charles Caleb Colton