Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
