Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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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.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"
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No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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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.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
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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.
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!