Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the river of life in this world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
- Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
- Henry Ward Beecher