We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDebt 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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