Henry Ward Beecher

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

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

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

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

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"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."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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

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

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

"Now comes the mystery! (last words)"

"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."

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

"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."

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

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

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."