"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
Charles Caleb ColtonAny one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
Charles Caleb ColtonWars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
Charles Caleb ColtonA wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.
Charles Caleb Colton