Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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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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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.