Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

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

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.