Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression. — Frank Moore Colby
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby
For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? — Frank Moore Colby
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. — Frank Moore Colby
A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. — Frank Moore Colby
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? — Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby
The new york playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. — Frank Moore Colby
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. — Frank Moore Colby
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. — Frank Moore Colby