Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Forgiveness quotes.

"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
-Henry Ward Beecher

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Christianity quotes.

""A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.""
-Henry Ward Beecher in Libraries quotes.

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Dogs quotes.

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Art quotes.

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Faith quotes.

"Now comes the mystery."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"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."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Art quotes.

"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
-Henry Ward Beecher in Anger quotes.

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. "
-Henry Ward Beecher

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
-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 philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it. "
-Henry Ward Beecher