Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.

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.

Now comes the mystery.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. - from Proverbs from Pymouth Pulpit