Beecher, Henry Ward
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
