A biography for Henry Ward Beecherhasn’t been written yet.
“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
“Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.”
“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
“Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.”
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”
“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”
“A church debt is the devil's salary.”
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
“The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.”
“The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”
“Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.”