Henry Ward Beecher

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.