Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.