Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
William Rounseville Alger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Rounseville Alger
Poetry
Says
Literature
Religion
Natural
Essayist
Essayists
English
More quotes by 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 heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
William Rounseville Alger
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
William Rounseville Alger
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William Rounseville Alger
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William Rounseville Alger
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
William Rounseville Alger
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
William Rounseville Alger
Courage makes a man more than himself for he is then himself plus his valor.
William Rounseville Alger
Keep your working power at its maximum.
William Rounseville Alger
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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
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
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
William Rounseville Alger
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William Rounseville Alger
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William Rounseville Alger
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
William Rounseville Alger
