Henry Ward Beecher

“The dog is the god of frolic.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”

“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”

“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”

“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”

“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.”

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”

“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”

“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”