Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (306 Quotes)

Now comes the mystery.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober not to make us sorry, but wise not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field.

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.

Living is death dying is life On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens on this side, orphans on that, children on this side captives on that freemen on this side, disguised, unknown on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Truths are first clouds then rain, then harvest and food.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes openly bad and secretly bad.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles

When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Flowers ... have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor and no man can tell what becomes of his influence

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true then your life will be also.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands

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.

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.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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.

There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.

Success is full of promise till men get it then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown.

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

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Riches without law are more dangerous than poverty without law.

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