Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
Charles Caleb ColtonPedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
Charles Caleb ColtonOur admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb ColtonCommerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb ColtonPride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
Charles Caleb Colton