Martin Farquhar Tupper
Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.Collection: Faith
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.Collection: Ignorance
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.Collection: Sweet
Economy, the poor man's mint.Collection: Men
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.Collection: Ocean
When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.Collection: Marriage
Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.Collection: Light
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.Collection: Character
The most wretched have yet hope.Collection: Hope
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.Collection: Sleep
A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.Collection: World
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.Collection: Wisdom
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.Collection: Wise
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.Collection: Mean
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.Collection: Rights
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.Collection: Sea
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.Collection: Hate