Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
- Henry Ward Beecher
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
- 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
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
- Henry Ward Beecher