Henry Ward Beecher

"The one great poem of New England is her Sunday."

"Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that, find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of takin…"

"Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect."

"It is not to come in any particular way, or with any particular experience, but to arise and come to your Father, and say unto Him, "Father I have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and am no more…"

"When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory."

"Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which…"

"Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out."

"A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life."