(17 quotes found)
“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason”
William R. Alger
“Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.”
“Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind”
“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,O friend! so I met and then parted from thee.”
“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
“He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.”
“What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
“Public opinion is a second conscience.”
“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”
