Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
- Henry Ward Beecher
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
- Henry Ward Beecher