If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb ColtonMany books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton