Quotes from William Rounseville Alger

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

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

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

Keep your working power at its maximum.

Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....

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.

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

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

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.

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.

Words of love are works of love.

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.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.