William Rounseville Alger Quotes & Sayings

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. — William Rounseville Alger

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

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,
a friend. — William Rounseville Alger

The most terrible of all things is terror. — William Rounseville Alger

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. — William Rounseville Alger

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

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

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild. — William Rounseville Alger

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any. — William Rounseville Alger

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

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. — William Rounseville Alger

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. — William Rounseville Alger

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! — William Rounseville Alger

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. — William Rounseville Alger

Laws are the silent assessors of God. — William Rounseville Alger

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. — William Rounseville Alger

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. — William Rounseville Alger

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids. — William Rounseville Alger

Keep your working power at its maximum. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

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

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth. — William Rounseville Alger

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

Polite beggary is too common. — William Rounseville Alger

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe. — William Rounseville Alger

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

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. — William Rounseville Alger

Every man is his own greatest dupe. — William Rounseville Alger

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. — William Rounseville Alger

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. — William Rounseville Alger

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. — William Rounseville Alger

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. — William Rounseville Alger

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

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. — William Rounseville Alger