William Rounseville Alger Quotes
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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