Quotes from 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
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
- 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
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher