Life: 1802 - 1882
Birthday: 1802
Death: 1882
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.
source: William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295
topic: Excellence, Intellectual, Battle, Moral Excellence