It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb ColtonWealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
Charles Caleb ColtonMen will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb ColtonGold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.
Charles Caleb Colton