Persecuting 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 ColtonCalumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb ColtonLaw and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb Colton