Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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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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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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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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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
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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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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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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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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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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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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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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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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.