You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
– Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
– Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.
– Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the river of life in the world.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
– Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
– Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
– Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
– Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.