Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly […]
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
It is not mere cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that men makes invincible.
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
