Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.