Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs babies

Love is the wine of existence. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Love is the wine of existence.
— Henry Ward Beecher The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher

love

Ignorance is the womb of monsters. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
— Henry Ward Beecher

ignorance

Faith is spiritualized imagination. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
— Henry Ward Beecher

faith

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs words language ideas

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
— Henry Ward Beecher

work

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs work

Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Love is the river of life in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher

love

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Love is the medicine of all moral evil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Suffering is a part of the Divine idea. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Suffering is a part of the Divine idea.

suffering God

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

mother

There is a benevolence in all wise selfishness. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
There is a benevolence in all wise selfishness.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs selfishness

Happiness is not the end of life: character is. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs vanity

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

ambition

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window.

old age

Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs beauty

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher

defeat proverbs

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Alas!  Where is human nature so weak as in a book-store! - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Alas!  Where is human nature so weak as in a book-store!
— Henry Ward Beecher Star Papers

bookstore

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher

prayer proverbs

Well married, a man is winged—ill-married, he is shackled. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Well married, a man is winged—ill-married, he is shackled.
— Henry Ward Beecher

marriage

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance.
— Henry Ward Beecher

prejudice

Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.
— Henry Ward Beecher

marriage proverbs

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs temptation

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by counter truth. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by counter truth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed.
— Henry Ward Beecher Lectures to Young Men
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
— Henry Ward Beecher

humor

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs principles

A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher Eyes and Ears

libraries

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
— Henry Ward Beecher Star Papers, or, Experiences of Art and Nature

nature art

A man's best success comes after his greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man's best success comes after his greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man without a vote in this land is like a man without a hand. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man without a vote in this land is like a man without a hand.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs voting

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher The Original Plymouth Pulpit Sermons, Sep. 1872–March 1873

self-control

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
— Henry Ward Beecher

gratitude

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher Notes From Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages

tears

Riches without law are more dangerous than in poverty without law. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Riches without law are more dangerous than in poverty without law.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs law

Flowers may beckon toward us, but they speak toward heaven and God! - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Flowers may beckon toward us, but they speak toward heaven and God!
— Henry Ward Beecher Eyes and Ears

flowers

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
— Henry Ward Beecher

leisure

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children.  He is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The dog was created specially for children.  He is the god of frolic.
— Henry Ward Beecher

dogs proverbs

A man that does not know how to he angry does not know how to be good. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man that does not know how to he angry does not know how to be good.
— Henry Ward Beecher

anger

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
— Henry Ward Beecher

war

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
— Henry Ward Beecher

anger outrage

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher

family parenting human nature

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher

parenting proverbs mother

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

anger

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
That is true culture which helps us to work the social betterment of all. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
That is true culture which helps us to work the social betterment of all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a friend his faults. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a friend his faults.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England

medicine illness

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.
— Henry Ward Beecher

boys proverbs

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
— Henry Ward Beecher

wealth

Cheerfulness in a man is that which when people meet him makes others happy. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Cheerfulness in a man is that which when people meet him makes others happy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
— Henry Ward Beecher

creativity

Character is in oneself; the reputation others have of you is their opinions. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Character is in oneself; the reputation others have of you is their opinions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When a nation's young men are conservatives, its funeral bell is already rung. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
When a nation's young men are conservatives, its funeral bell is already rung.
— Henry Ward Beecher

conservatives proverbs

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs flattery

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher

wealth

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher

imagination proverbs

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

flowers

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher

defeat proverbs

He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs joy

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs art artists

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going in that way too. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going in that way too.

Strength

Not what men do worthily, but what they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Not what men do worthily, but what they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs trees

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

books

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

trouble

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
— Henry Ward Beecher

faith future worry

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

selfishness

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher

enthusiasm proverbs

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
— Henry Ward Beecher

law proverbs freedom

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown.

success

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher

business

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. One must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. One must take it. The only choice is how.
— Henry Ward Beecher

life

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
— Henry Ward Beecher

mother proverbs

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
— Henry Ward Beecher

rain

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs shopping

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

proverbs evil passion abstinence

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.
— Henry Ward Beecher

forgiveness

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but." - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but."
— Henry Ward Beecher A Dictionary of Thoughts

praise

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs law

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher

mankind

Difficulties are God's errands.  And when we are sent upon them we should esteem it as a proof of God's confidence—as a compliment from God. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Difficulties are God's errands.  And when we are sent upon them we should esteem it as a proof of God's confidence—as a compliment from God.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs difficulties

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs books

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them.
— Henry Ward Beecher Arbor Day Manual

trees

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household than on the most memorable battlefields of history. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household than on the most memorable battlefields of history.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge.  Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge.  Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
— Henry Ward Beecher

proverbs knowledge

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night, as in a soil, and out of it he comes every day with fresh growth and bloom. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night, as in a soil, and out of it he comes every day with fresh growth and bloom.
— Henry Ward Beecher Lectures to Young Men, On Various Important Subjects

sleep fatigue

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
— Henry Ward Beecher Philadelphia Quaker: The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith

advice

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunder-storm in summer, clearing and cooling the air. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunder-storm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
— Henry Ward Beecher

anger proverbs

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
— Henry Ward Beecher

forgiveness

Nothing is so sensitive as love—and the greater, the more sensitive.  It cannot endure indifference.  It needs to be wanted.  Like a lamp, it needs to be fed from out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Nothing is so sensitive as love—and the greater, the more sensitive.  It cannot endure indifference.  It needs to be wanted.  Like a lamp, it needs to be fed from out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
— Henry Ward Beecher The Original Plymouth Pulpit Sermons

love

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
— Henry Ward Beecher

wealth

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man by one which is lower than himself.  The one produces aspiration; the other, ambition.  Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man by one which is lower than himself.  The one produces aspiration; the other, ambition.  Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

aspiration

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.  Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest, and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.  Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest, and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
— Henry Ward Beecher Star Papers, or, Experiences of Art and Nature

flowers

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. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher

cynicism

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his faults.  If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of a sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words—that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his faults.  If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of a sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words—that is friendship.
— Henry Ward Beecher Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects

friendship

Happiness is not the end of life, character is.

character

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

truth

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher

parenting

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.  The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
— Henry Ward Beecher Notes From Plymouth Pulpit

love

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.
— Henry Ward Beecher Lectures to Young Men, On Various Important Subjects

cynics

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory.  He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

greatness

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher

greatness Strength glory