Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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

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

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won`t.

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

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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.

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