The court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.
The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed of people very hard and very polished. La Bruyère.
The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes are counted worst of all: / The golden mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit, and fears no fall. Old ballad.
The court of the past differs from all living 5 aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else. Ruskin.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. Tillotson.
The covetous man never has money, and the prodigal will have none shortly. Johnson.
The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a knave of parts. Steele.
The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Lavater.
The crafty man is always in danger; and 10 when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent, that he that runs may read them. Tillotson.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Emerson.