More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"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."
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"