Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

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.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Love is the river of life in the world.

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

Now comes the mystery.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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

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 never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.