Henry Ward Beecher

“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“Each book has a secret history of ways and means.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

“Buku adalah sebuah taman, sebuah kebun buah, sebuah gudang penuh barang, sebuah pesta, seorang teman seperjalanan, seorang penasihat, bahkan sejumlah besar penasihat.”

“Orang yang periang bisa diibaratkan sinar matahari,Yang membuat orang-orang di sekelilingnya ikut riang pula.Keriangan hati memberi sayap pada kaki, otot pada tungkai dan lengan, serta keluwesan pada setiap gerakan.”

“Orang sinis adalah orang yang tidak pernah melihat hal-hal yang baik pada orang lain, tetapi tidak pernah luput melihat yang buruk.”

“Bohong yang baik itu tidak ada.Bohong adalah bohong.”

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”

“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”

“Sebuah perpustakaan kecil yang tumbuh lebih besar dari tahun ke tahun adalah bagian yang patut dihargai dari sejarah hidup seseorang.Manusia mempunyai tugas untuk memiliki buku-buku.Perpustakaan bukanlah suatu kemewahan, melainkan merupakan sesuatu yang diperlukan di dalam hidup.”

“Buku adalah jendela yang digunakan jiwa untuk melihat ke luar.”

“Terberkatilah orang-orang yang menciptakan kebahagiaan,Terberkatilah mereka yang menyingkirkan segala pertengkaran,Orang yang membuat jalan hidup menjadi mulus dan membuat lawan menjadi lembut.”

“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has”

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

“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

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

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”

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

“Buku adalah jendelaSukma kita melihat dunia luar lewat jendela iniRumah tanpa buku bagaikan ruangan tak berjendela.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”