Henry Ward Beecher

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Well married, a man is winged__ll-matched, he is shackled.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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

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

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.