I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
