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 is that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand. There is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth’s huge quintiilion whose clay heart is hardened against love.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Love
Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Memory
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Books, Reading
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.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Wealth
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery, but often quickened happiness.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Wealth
Ideas, though vivid and real, are often indefinite, and are shy of the close furniture of words.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Ideas
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Conscience
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.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Pride
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes.—Yet what is wisdom without memory?
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Memory
Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Humility
Know thyself, thine evil as well as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; her speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide; for wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will thy sycophant commend thee.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Flattery
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Moderation
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revery is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Reflection
I have sped much by land, and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Kindness
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Time
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Topics: Anger
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