He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
Charles Caleb ColtonRiches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.
Charles Caleb Colton