Nature Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who…

— Henry Ward Beecher

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates…

— Henry Ward Beecher

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

— Henry Ward Beecher

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we…

— Henry Ward Beecher

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied…

— Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing…

— Henry Ward Beecher