Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

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.

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

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

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

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

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 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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.