Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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