Charles Caleb Colton Quote

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.


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


Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.