Henry Ward Beecher

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

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

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

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

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

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

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

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

"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

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

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

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

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

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

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"