The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Henry Ward Beecher

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Henry Ward Beecher

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry Ward Beecher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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