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Quotations By Henry Ward Beecher


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

Culture
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Cynicism
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

Duty
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Emotion
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Enthusiasm
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Health
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Learning
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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

Perseverance
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Success
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.

Success
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Wealth
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.