Henry Ward Beecher

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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.

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

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.