Henry Ward Beecher

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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 mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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