Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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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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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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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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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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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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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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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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It takes a man to make a devil.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Love is more just than justice.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.