Henry Ward Beecher

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.