It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
Charles Caleb ColtonWords indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
Charles Caleb ColtonA coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
Charles Caleb Colton