More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."
"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."