“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”

— Henry Ward Beecher, Subtleties of Book Buyers, Star Papers (1855)

About Henry Ward Beecher

1813 – 1887

American clergyman and social reformer.

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”

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

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”

“And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.”