The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher

Now comes the mystery.
Henry Ward Beecher

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher