God made man to go by motives and he will not go without them any more than a boat without steam or

God made man to go by motives and he will not go without them any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Author: Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are not men, and yet they stay alive.

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

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

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

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.