Charles Caleb Colton Talent Quotations

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.