Top 915 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Ward Beecher - Page 2
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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.
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
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