Beecher, Henry Ward

"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child."

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

"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."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

"Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." - Life Thoughts

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

"Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit