Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
Charles Caleb ColtonHonesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
Charles Caleb Colton