Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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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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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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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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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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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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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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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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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
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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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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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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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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.