The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
Charles Caleb ColtonThe man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
Charles Caleb ColtonThat is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Charles Caleb Colton