Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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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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A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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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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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.