Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Charles Caleb ColtonCheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
Charles Caleb ColtonAs a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
Charles Caleb Colton