A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Intelligence
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Love
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Marriage
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Religion
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Time
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