I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
