Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand 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 a while upon the roof and then fly away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There sounds the horn! Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salutary custom is that of breakfast. One may work with the hands before breakfast, but not much with the head. The machine must be wound up.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The whole heaven is full of little cherub faces.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow makes men sincere.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
- Henry Ward Beecher