Quotes from C. C. Colton

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. But a wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Professors in every branch of the sciences prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is, that their theories are private property, but the truth is common stock.

...beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm...

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labour to renew...