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Generosity
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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God
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Gossip
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Government
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Grace
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Gratitude
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Hate
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Health
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Heart
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Heaven
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Heroes/Heroism
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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.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Humanity
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Humor
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Ideas
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Identity
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Imagination
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Investment
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Joy, Excitement
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Laughter
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this rust of life--ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Law
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Books by and about Henry Ward Beecher