Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb ColtonButler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
Charles Caleb ColtonTaking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
Charles Caleb Colton