Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.