People Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are proud of their humility.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

— Henry Ward Beecher

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order…

— 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

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,…

— 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

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this…

— Henry Ward Beecher