Books Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

— Henry Ward Beecher

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

— Henry Ward Beecher