William Rounseville AlgerThinkers

Advice is given by the bucket, but taken by the grain.

Aphorism is a genre which to appreciate and to use correctly requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

An Aphorism is portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of th« foolish, the enemy of the bad.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Moon is a silver pin-head vast, that holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.

The Proverb is a mental gem gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

The Proverb is a mental gem gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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.

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