Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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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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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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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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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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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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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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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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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.
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The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.