Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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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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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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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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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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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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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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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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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.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.