William R. Alger Quotes
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After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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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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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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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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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.