Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Now comes the mystery.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

The mother's heart is the child's school-room.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.