Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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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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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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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.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.