Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorance is the womb of monsters
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- Henry Ward Beecher