The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation. Ruskin.
The civilised savage (Wilde) is the worst of all savages. C. J. Weber.
The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly. Goethe.
The clergy are at present divided into three 35 sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. Huxley.
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. Tempest, iv. 1.
The cloud incense of the altar hides / The true form of the God who there abides. Dr. W. Smith.
The clouds never pass against the wind. Hitopadesa.
The clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring from an eye / That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Wordsworth.
The clouds that wrap the setting sun / ... Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe? / To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love. Keble.
The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond 5 or a spring-run, too insignificant to make any exceptions to. John Burroughs.