Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

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.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

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!

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!

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.