Alger's Quotes
Collection of top 56 famous quotes about Alger's
Alger's Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Alger's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
— William Rounseville Alger
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
— Horatio Alger
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
— William Rounseville Alger
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
— William Rounseville Alger
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
— William Rounseville Alger
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
— William Rounseville Alger
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
— William Rounseville Alger
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
— William Rounseville Alger
How inexplicable and enviable, never to want to be anywhere other than where you already are.
— Cristina Alger
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
— William Rounseville Alger
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
— William Rounseville Alger
The most terrible of all things is terror.
— William Rounseville Alger
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
— William Rounseville Alger
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
— William Rounseville Alger
Words of love, are works of love.
— William R. Alger
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
— William Rounseville Alger
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
— William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
— William Rounseville Alger
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
— William Rounseville Alger
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
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
— William R. Alger
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
— William Rounseville Alger
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
— William Rounseville Alger
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,
a friend. — William Rounseville Alger
a friend. — William Rounseville Alger
The greatest strength you can have is to know your own strengths. You've got to figure out what you're good at and make the most of it.
— Cristina Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
— William R. Alger
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
— William Rounseville Alger
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
— William Rounseville Alger
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 R. Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
— William R. Alger
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
— William Rounseville Alger
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
— 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
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
— Alger Hiss
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
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
— William Rounseville Alger
Polite beggary is too common.
— William Rounseville Alger
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
— William Rounseville Alger
Public opinion is a second conscience.
— William R. Alger
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
— Horatio Alger
The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
— 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
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
— William Rounseville Alger
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
— William R. Alger
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
— Waverley Root
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
— Alger Hiss
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
— William R. Alger
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
— William R. Alger
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
— William R. Alger
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
— William Rounseville Alger
Keep your working power at its maximum.
— William Rounseville Alger
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
— Horatio Alger
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
— William Rounseville Alger
Laws are the silent assessors of God.
— William Rounseville Alger