“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
– 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
“The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
– 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
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“The dog is the god of frolic.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
– 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 artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
– Henry Ward Beecher