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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Life

Luxury

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man

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

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

Principles

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Books

Nothing

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men

Books

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Children

Heaven

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Children

Inconsistency

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.