The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
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