Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the river of life in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher