Henry Ward Beecher

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.