Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others…

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.