Henry Ward Beecher quotes and words of wisdom

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."
Found in the topic Business.

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."
Found in the topic Faith.

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
Found in the topic Tomorrow.

"Good humor makes all things tolerable."
Found in the topic Humor.

"The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government."
Found in the topic Anarchy.

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Found in the topic Art.

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it."
Found in the topic Law.

"To array a man"s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
Found in the topic Medicine.

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."
Found in the topic Heaven.

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
Found in the topic Common.

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won"t."
Found in the topic Obstinacy.

"Success is full of promises till men get it; and then it is as last year"s nest, from which the bird has flown."
Found in the topic Success.

"In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
Found in the topic Philanthropy.

"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. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it."
Found in the topic Laugh.

"We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
Found in the topic Trial.

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away."
Found in the topic Joy.

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
Found in the topic Book.

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
Found in the topic Christianity.

"It is not well for a man to pray cream; and live skim milk."
Found in the topic Live.

Interesting Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.Groucho Marx - US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)