COLTON

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold--numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.