More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"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."
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."