Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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