The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. Bulwer Lytton.
The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest. Joseph Roux.
The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. Emerson.
The conscious water saw its god and blushed. Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana.
The consolation which is derived from truth, 30 if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Johnson.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon.
The contingent facts of history can never become the proof of the truths of reason. Lessing.
The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking. Dr. Andrew Combe.
The core will come to the surface. Emerson.
The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The 35 carcases that Time has made his prey. Crowe.