Horatio Alger famous quotes

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
-- Horatio Alger

#Age #Chivalry #Form

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
-- Horatio Alger

#Wall #College #Years

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
-- Horatio Alger

#Art #War #School

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
-- Horatio Alger

#Prayer #Night #Fasting

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe...

Chivalry should be consensual.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

The form is always the measure of the obsession.