Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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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.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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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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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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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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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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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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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.