Quotes from beecher henry ward iii

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Debt 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.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

All things in the natural world symboliZe God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. They should be to spiritual sentiments what the hot-bed is to early flowers.