With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...
Charles Caleb ColtonEnvy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
Charles Caleb ColtonIn politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.
Charles Caleb Colton