None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
Charles Caleb ColtonPity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Charles Caleb ColtonMathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
Charles Caleb Colton