Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

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

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.