Henry Ward Beecher

Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side…

— 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

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes…

— Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man that is afraid is never a man.

— Henry Ward Beecher

As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— 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

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

— Henry Ward Beecher