The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age. Goethe.
The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. Chapin.
The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense / Repairs itself by rest. Cymbeline, ii. 2.
The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the 15 humble. Cass.
The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy; the upright man's perfection; the soul and body's health; the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of all good. Damascen.
The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat. W. H. Thomson.
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended, and I think / The nightingale, if she should sing by day, / when every goose is cackling, would be thought / No better a musician than the wren. Mer. of Venice, v. 1.
The crowd ... if they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all Nature from her feet of clay, / Without the will to lift their eyes, and see / Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual fire / And touching other worlds. Tennyson.
The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful 20 than that of the hardy. Lavater.
The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart of God himself. Ed.