Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Adversity
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Anger
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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

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

Books and Reading
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Charity
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Creativity
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Culture
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Death and Dying
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Now comes the mystery. [Beecher's last words]

Difficulties
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Enthusiasm
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Fear
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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

Friends and Friendship
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

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

Heaven
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Ideas
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

Industriousness
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Influence
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Love
Love is the river of life in the world.

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

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

Opinions
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Perseverance
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

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

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

Success
One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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

Time and Time Management
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.

Theology
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Words
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Worth
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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