"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not to be known, live in a city."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)