Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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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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Love is more just than justice.
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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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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.