Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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

A church debt is the devil's salary.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

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

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

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

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

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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.

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