The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
– Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
– Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
– Henry Ward Beecher
One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
– Henry Ward Beecher
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
– Henry Ward Beecher
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
– Henry Ward Beecher
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy- bearing agent to the world
– Henry Ward Beecher
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
– Henry Ward Beecher
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
– Henry Ward Beecher
A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.
– Henry Ward Beecher
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
– Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
– Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
– Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
– Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
– Henry Ward Beecher