Henry Ward Beecher

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

— Henry Ward Beecher

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is an army of waiters in this world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Storms purify the atmosphere.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Experience is the mother of custom.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in this world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

God's glory is His goodness.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

— Henry Ward Beecher

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our…

— Henry Ward Beecher