To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

The present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

—Baltasar Gracián

You see what power is—holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

—Amy Tan

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

—Marcus Aurelius

Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West