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, t…

- William Benton Clulow

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to…

- William Benton Clulow

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

- William Benton Clulow

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

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency,…

- William Benton Clulow

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer…

- William Benton Clulow

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

- William Benton Clulow

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

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, impercept…

- William Benton Clulow