Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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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.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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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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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.