Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
In this world it is not what you take up but what you give up that makes you rich.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom Which springs from the soul.
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.









