Famous Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
Henry Ward Beecher
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher