"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."
"Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled."
"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands 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 up..."
"One best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."
"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."