It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb ColtonPride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
Charles Caleb ColtonI will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
Charles Caleb ColtonSome persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
Charles Caleb Colton