Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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