Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
