Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

The dog is the god of frolic.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.