Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
-
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
-
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
-
The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
-
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
-
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
-
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
-
Sorrow makes men sincere.
-
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
-
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
-
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
-
True obedience is true freedom.
-
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
-
There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
-
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
-
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
-
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
-
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
-
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
-
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
-
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
-
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
-
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
-
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.