Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.

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.

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.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

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

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.