Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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

The dog is the god of frolic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.