Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
- Henry Ward Beecher
True obedience is true freedom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher