Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.