A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
Henry Ward BeecherNo man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward BeecherThe sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward BeecherVictories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward BeecherThe reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
Henry Ward BeecherThe deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
Henry Ward Beecher