There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'


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RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually ma...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise o...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he sn...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with de...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Words of love, are works of love.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too nar...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyeli...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,-- Ah, ho...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's inde...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only th...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason
WILLIAM R. ALGER
The moon is a silver pinhead vastThat holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Officers from the 44th Precinct in the High Bridge section of the Bronx arrested two men in a blue v...
WILLIAM R. GREER
As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,O friend! so I met and then parted from thee.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind
WILLIAM R. ALGER
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise o...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason
WILLIAM R. ALGER
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeas...
WILLIAM R. ALGER
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
DEAN INGE
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching...
DEAN INGE
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no m...
DEAN INGE
Maybe they've just got the itch when it comes to Tigers pitching. I can't figure it out. I'm waiting...
BRANDON INGE
They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.
BRANDON INGE
We have a different agenda this year, and it's not harping on negatives. That starts with the skippe...
BRANDON INGE
I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tai...
BRANDON INGE
I would rather have that ball had hit me in the face and stayed in the infield.
BRANDON INGE
I think his swing looks like it did a couple years ago. He'd make a whole lot of noise when he hit t...
BRANDON INGE
It's not the same fastball he used to throw. But he's smart enough to mix 'em up.
BRANDON INGE
I was battling absolutely as hard as I could. A pitcher would rather have a rocket hit off him than ...
BRANDON INGE
Last year and the year prior, it was so uptight. This year, we need to do something different. This ...
BRANDON INGE
It's all a matter of confidence. I think it took us taking two out of three against Boston (last wee...
BRANDON INGE
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely countin...
DEAN INGE
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
DEAN INGE