Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

The dog is the god of frolic.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

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.

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.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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

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

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

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

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

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.