In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.
Charles Caleb ColtonAll adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
Charles Caleb ColtonLet those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
Charles Caleb Colton