No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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