Henry Ward Beecher

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

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

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

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."