Quote

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

William Rounseville Alger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Rounseville Alger
Wisdom
Feeling
Feelings
Thought
Extracts
Aphorisms
Portable
Quintessential
Aphorism

More quotes by William Rounseville Alger

Image
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
Image
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
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
Image
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
Image
False eloquence is exaggeration true eloquence is emphasis.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Laws are the silent assessors of God.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
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
Image
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
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.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
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