Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes

• “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 s...”
• “‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity you...”
• “Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see cle...”
• “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's hear...”
• “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it ...”
• “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they...”
• “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
• “Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
• “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
• “It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
• “Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
• “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
• “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
• “Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
• “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
• “The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
• “To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
• “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
• “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
• “Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”
• “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
• “Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
• “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
• “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
• “Now comes the mystery! (last words)”