Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
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Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
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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. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.