Henry Ward Beecher

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

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

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



A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher