Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
Charles Caleb ColtonMake the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
Charles Caleb ColtonBed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
Charles Caleb ColtonFor all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.
Charles Caleb Colton