Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb ColtonWhen I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.
Charles Caleb ColtonSo blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
Charles Caleb Colton