Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life is a plant that grows out of death.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
- Henry Ward Beecher
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
- Henry Ward Beecher