Martin Farquhar Tupper
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.Collection: Peace
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.Collection: God
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Collection: Wisdom
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
He who does not tire, tires adversity.
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.Collection: Eye
Lies can destroy, but not create.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Confidence
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.Collection: Men
Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.Collection: Hate
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.Collection: Sincerity
Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."Collection: Giving Up
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.Collection: Life
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.Collection: Men
The pen has shaken nations.Collection: Pens
Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.Collection: Love
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.Collection: Wings
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.Collection: Power
One single glance will conquer all descriptions.Collection: Vision
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.Collection: Men
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.Collection: Beauty
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.Collection: Men
Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.Collection: Selfish
Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.Collection: Nature
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.Collection: Pride
A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.Collection: Years
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.Collection: Want
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.Collection: Wise
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.Collection: Mistake
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.Collection: Wall
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.Collection: Speech
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.Collection: Eye
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.Collection: Children
Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.Collection: Reason
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.Collection: Happiness
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.Collection: Baby
Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!Collection: May
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.Collection: Humility
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.Collection: Chance
Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.Collection: Brother
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.Collection: Age