If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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