Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful…

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a…

Faith is spiritualized imagination…

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any…

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

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

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom…

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore…

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the…

A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself…

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine…

Love is the river of life in the world…

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

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

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will…