Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.