Henry Ward Beecher

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.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

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.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Now comes the mystery.