Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Beecher, Henry Ward
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Beecher, Henry Ward
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Beecher, Henry Ward
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
Beecher, Henry Ward
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
Beecher, Henry Ward
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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.
Beecher, Henry Ward
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Beecher, Henry Ward
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Beecher, Henry Ward
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Beecher, Henry Ward
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Beecher, Henry Ward
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
Beecher, Henry Ward