Famous Quotes

Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
• 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.
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
• The dog is the god of frolic.
• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
• Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
• 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.
• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.