Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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

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

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