Henry Ward Beecher

“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”

“There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”

“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”

“All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”

“Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

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

“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”

“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”

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

“There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.”

“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.”

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”

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

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”

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

“Love is the river of life in the world.”