Quotes By William R. Alger

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Words of love, are works of love.

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.

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