It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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