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Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

The whole heaven is full of little cherub faces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow makes men sincere.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Let every man come to God in his own way.
~ Henry Ward Beecher