Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

“Well married, a man is wingedill-matched, he is shackled.”

“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”

“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.”

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

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“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...”

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

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

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

“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”

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

“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”

“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.”

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

“the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't”

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”