More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"‎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."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."
"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."