Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.