Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
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A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.