More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."