Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Quotations

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

» Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

» It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

» What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

» You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

» A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

» There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

» Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

» You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

» Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

» Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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