Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise 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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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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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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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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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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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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.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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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.