There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
Charles Caleb ColtonPain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
Charles Caleb ColtonBy paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
Charles Caleb ColtonFew things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
Charles Caleb Colton