More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
"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."
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."