131 Quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper

The most wretched have yet hope.

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

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

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.

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

Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

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

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.