Charles Caleb Colton Roots Quotations

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.