Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
Charles Caleb ColtonHappiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
Charles Caleb ColtonHonesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
Charles Caleb Colton