Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
- Henry Ward Beecher