Quotes Henry Ward Beecher

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without l...

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself ...

A church debt is the devil's salary....

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

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how t...

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

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without sp...

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he...

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on t...

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't b...

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child....

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else ...

Books are not men and yet they stay alive....

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven....

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistenc...

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is mad...

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation....

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven....

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury...

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with ...

Every young man would do well to remember that all successfu...

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages...

Faith is spiritualized imagination....

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to ...