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, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.


Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion (ed. 1843)

William Benton Clulow Quotes

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...