Henry Ward Beecher

"The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no friendship, and no love, like that of the parent for the child."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Preschooler’s are the hands with which we grasp heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”"

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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 hollyhock."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

""Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.""

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A bird in a cage is not half a bird."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Grim care, moroseness, and anxiety—all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy."

- 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

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Never excuse yourself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens."

- Henry Ward Beecher

""In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.""

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every man should be born again on January 1. Start with a fresh page."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every man should be born again on January first. Start with a fresh page."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which spring from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom that springs from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"God appoints our graces to be NURSES to other men’s weaknesses."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The Sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness… Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty."

- Henry Ward Beecher