MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

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.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

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; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain, Gather to your country's call, On your hearts her name is written, Rise to help her, one and all!

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter ;, For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

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.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

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.

The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

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.

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.