Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,...

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,...

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,...

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,...