Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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