Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

About Henry Ward Beecher:

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

Author Bio

  • NameHenry Ward Beecher
  • DescriptionAmerican clergyman and activist
  • BornJune 24, 1813
  • DiedMarch 8, 1887
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician