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

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

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3. Henry Ward Beecher - “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

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4. Henry Ward Beecher - “A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.”

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5. Henry Ward Beecher - “To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

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6. Henry Ward Beecher - “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

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7. Henry Ward Beecher - “The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”

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8. Henry Ward Beecher - “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

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9. Henry Ward Beecher - “Success is full of promises till men get it; and then it is as last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.”

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10. Henry Ward Beecher - “In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

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11. Henry Ward Beecher - “Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.”

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12. Henry Ward Beecher - “We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”

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13. Henry Ward Beecher - “Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.”

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14. Henry Ward Beecher - “There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

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15. Henry Ward Beecher - “It is not well for a man to pray cream; and live skim milk.”

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16. Henry Ward Beecher - “Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.”

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17. Henry Ward Beecher - “If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”

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18. Henry Ward Beecher - “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

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19. Henry Ward Beecher - “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

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20. Henry Ward Beecher - “Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven”

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21. Henry Ward Beecher - “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

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22. Henry Ward Beecher - “Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.”

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23. Henry Ward Beecher - “Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.”

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24. Henry Ward Beecher - “It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.”

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25. Henry Ward Beecher - “I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”

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