With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
Charles Caleb ColtonEnvy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
Charles Caleb ColtonHonor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
Charles Caleb ColtonPersecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
Charles Caleb Colton