Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
- Henry Ward Beecher