131 Quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

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.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.