Henry Ward Beecher

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

“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”

“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.”

“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”

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

“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”

“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”

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

“The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.”

“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”

“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”

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

“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”

“The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.”

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

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

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