Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquifies the gold, hardens the clay.
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions.
Mystery is not profoundness.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun.
An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
