The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
Charles Caleb ColtonSome are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
Charles Caleb ColtonSpeaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
Charles Caleb ColtonIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
Charles Caleb Colton