Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
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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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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.