Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

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

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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

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.

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

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.

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.