We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
