“The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.”

“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher”

“Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned off so that in the silence we can hear the tragic truth of the Gospel, which is that the world where God is absent is a dark and echoing emptiness; and the comic truth of the Gospel, which is that it is into the depths of his absence that God makes himself present in such unlikely ways and to such unlikely people that old Sarah and Abraham and maybe when the time comes even Pilate and Job and Lear and Henry Ward Beecher and you and I laugh till the tears run down our cheeks. And finally let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it that catch of the breath, that beat and lifting of the heart near to or even accompanied by tears, which I believe is the deepest intuition of truth that we have.”

“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”

“One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”

“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”

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

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”

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

“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”

“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”