Famous Quotes / Henry Ward Beecher
182 Quotations by Henry Ward Beecher
- 21. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- 22. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
- 23. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
- 24. Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
- 25. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
- 26. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- 27. Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let ...
- 28. Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties ...
- 29. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- 30. Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
- 31. Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- 32. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of f ...
- 33. Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- 34. Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- 35. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
- 36. Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into
- 37. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival ...
- 38. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
- 39. God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- 40. God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only ques ...