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| Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. | | Courage | |
| Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other | | Courage | |
| Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. | | Courage | |
| Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth | | Courtesy | |
| Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption | | Credulity | |
| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense | | Criticism | |
| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. | | Criticism | |
| Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. | | Uncategorized | |
| Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. | | Books; Literature; Poetry | |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. | | Curiosity | |
| Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. | | Curiosity; Mind | |
| Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last | | Curiosity; Passion | |
| Dear Bathurst . . . was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater. | | Uncategorized | |
| Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, / And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; / There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, / Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. | | Uncategorized | |
| Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully | | Uncategorized | |
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| Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true | | Uncategorized | |
| Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. | | Uncategorized | |
