William R. Alger Quotes

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

William R. Alger

#2. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

#3. Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

William R. Alger

#4. Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

#5. 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.

William R. Alger

#6. 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

#7. Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

William R. Alger

#8. False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

William R. Alger

#9. Words of love, are works of love.

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#10. Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

William R. Alger

#11. The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

William R. Alger

#12. He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

William R. Alger