Best 35 quotes of William Rounseville Alger on MyQuotes

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.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

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.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

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.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

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.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

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.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

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.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.