Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
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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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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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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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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
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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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.