Quotes by William Alger

• 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.
• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
• He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
• Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
• Public opinion is a second conscience.
• 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.
• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
• Words of love, are works of love.
• The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.