"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Charles Caleb ColtonWit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.
Charles Caleb ColtonSome philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.
Charles Caleb Colton