Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

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

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

The pen has shaken nations.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

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."

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

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

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

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

The most wretched have yet hope.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

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

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

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

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

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

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.

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

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.