Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.