Quotes By William R. Alger

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.

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.