Martin TupperThinkers

A Book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle. And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Economy (saving) is the poor man's mint.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourishes in every soil." Martin Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy, 1842.

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand: passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be-happy.

Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection : thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion ; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and finds a friend in ail things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

The Lie is able to destroy, but not create.

Love looks from the eye, and kindles love by looking.