Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
- 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 only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher