Henry Ward Beecher quotes

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”

— 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

“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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher Will, Which, Others The dog is the god of frolic.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

— 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

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

— Henry Ward Beecher