It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
Charles Caleb ColtonWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Charles Caleb ColtonThose who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
Charles Caleb ColtonSome men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
Charles Caleb ColtonSlight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
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