In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.
Charles Caleb ColtonVillainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
Charles Caleb ColtonLaw and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
Charles Caleb Colton