William R. Alger

“Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.”

“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.”

“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”

“Words of love, are works of love.”

“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.”

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

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

“Public opinion is a second conscience.”

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

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

“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its 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.”