Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
Charles Caleb ColtonPosthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
Charles Caleb Colton