Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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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.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.