The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROf all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER