Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer William R. Alger.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
William Rounseville Alger was an American Unitarian minister, author, poet, hymnist, editor, and abolitionist. He also served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
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.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
Words of love, are works of love.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
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.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.