To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

- Francis Alexander Durivage

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

- Francis Alexander Durivage

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of …

- Francis Alexander Durivage

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…

- Francis Alexander Durivage

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

- Francis Alexander Durivage

The highest art is artlessness.

- Francis Alexander Durivage

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 t…

- Francis Alexander Durivage

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

- Francis Alexander Durivage