Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. 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
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
- Henry Ward Beecher