Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

It is a mans duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong wont

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.Henry Ward Beecher

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a mans history. It is a mans duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong wont.

To 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.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.