Charles Caleb ColtonThinkers

Action must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

A Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

The City is that which improves one's talents but impairs one's virtues. It strengthens their minds, but weakens their morals.

The City is where you know but are not known... the village is where you do not know but are known.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; once set-arolling, it must increase.

Criticism is like champagne: nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools... but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Friendship is like sound health... the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Gambling is a moral suicide.

A House may may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.