Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher