Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Love is the wine of existence.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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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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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
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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.