Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.