I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
Charles Caleb ColtonTrue friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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 Colton