106 Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher


Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher on men

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher on mom

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher on money

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher on money

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 on morning

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

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher on nature

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher on nature

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher on nature

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

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

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher on parenting

The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher on pet

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher on power

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher on power

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher on religion

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher on religion

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 on respect

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher on sad

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Henry Ward Beecher on science