Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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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 man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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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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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.