Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind. |
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. |
Courage consists in the power of self-recovery. |
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. |
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring |
Culture is one thing and varnish is another. |
Culture, with us, ends in headache |
Cunning is strength withheld. |
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
Cut a word and it will bleed. |
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. |
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. |
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive |
Difficulties exist to be surmounted |
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will |