Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

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

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.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

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.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.