Henry Ward Beecher quotes

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Good humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. (Henry Ward Beecher)
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beecher
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Henry Ward Beecher