Date: 1792

"The King of England steels his heart against us"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1794

"I do know thee brave, and in the breast, where fire-ey'd courage rears her rugged throne, sure honor must inhabit!"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1796

"[T]here is a Judge to whose all-seeing eye our inmost thoughts lie open"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1796

"A plague on stoicks! / I cannot hoop my heart about with iron, / Like an old beer-butt"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1796

The actor " Miss Farren, too, who might animate any thing but a soul of lead, and a face of iron, experienced the same fate" (the fate of being paired with a dull actor)

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1796

"You steel mens' hearts against you!"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1796

"I taught this breast, / Which Truth once made her throne, to forge a lie; / This tongue to utter it"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: 1805

"My heart's heavier than all the iron, and brass, in my shop"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

Date: April 18, 1805

"Universal benevolence: the chain of reason in which we all, willingly, bind ourselves. Nature gave us the links, and civiliz'd humanity has polish'd them."

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)