Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
Charles Caleb ColtonHow strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
Charles Caleb ColtonIn civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
Charles Caleb Colton