Henry Ward Beecher quotes

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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.

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The dog is the god of frolic.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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

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

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

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

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

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

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

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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

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!

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

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.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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