Henry Ward Beecher

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

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

“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”

“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.”

“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”

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

“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

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

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

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

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

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

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

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

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

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

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”