Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and He will not go without them, any...

#God

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at...

#Respect

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper...

#Insanity, #Mankind, #Sanity

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if...

#Mankind

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul...

#Nature

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

#Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

#Henry Ward Beecher

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in...

#Henry Ward Beecher

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

#Children

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

#Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as...

#Henry Ward Beecher

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

#Henry Ward Beecher