Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.