William R. Alger Quotes

Words of love, are works of love.

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

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.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

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

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.