Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

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.

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.

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.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

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

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

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

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.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.