Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.
Charles Caleb Colton