Francis Alexander Durivage Quotes
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
